GEORGIAN PRESIDENT PROTESTS JOURNALISTS\' ARREST IN BESLAN
By empty (9/6/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Mikheil Saakashvili sent a letter of protest to the Russian government on 6 September against the arrest in Beslan two days earlier of a journalist and a photographer employed by the independent Georgian television station Rustavi-2 and demanded their immediate release. The two were sentenced later on 6 September to 10 days\' administrative arrest on charges of illegally entering the Russian Federation. The Georgian Foreign Ministry has sent a similar protest to the Russian Prosecutor-General\'s Office.Visit also
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