GEORGIA ANNOUNCES NATIONAL EMERGENCY
PanARMENIAN.Net
08.11.2007 14:24 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Wednesday evening Georgian President Mikhael
Saakashvili signed a decree on establishment of state of emergency
in Tbilisi.
The measure has followed an attempt of coup d’etat, State Minister
Zurab Noghaideli said.
"The edict imposes limitations on conduction of demonstrations and
calls for violence, shift in power and organization of disorders,"
he said.
Mr Noghaideli said the state of emergency will cover Tbilisi only. At
that "freedom of speech is not limited" while "usual media work"
will be resumed after the order in the republic is established.
However, national emergency spear all over Georgia on Wednesday night.
Minister of Economic Development Giorgi Arveladze said the terms of
the edict will expire in 15 days.
Rustavi 2 private TV channel said good-bye to its audience and
promised to return in two weeks. Earlier, special forces occupied
the office of another TV channel – Imedi – belonging to entrepreneur
Badri Patarkatsishvili, Lenta.ru reports.