Through “60 Minutes” the Criminal Underworld Has Started a War Against the Judicial System

Through “60 Minutes” the Criminal Underworld Has Started a War Against the Judicial System

Tbilisi-based state-owned daily newspaper
Sakartvelos Respublika (The Republic Of Georgia)
Number 63, Monday, March 10, 2003

The broadcasting company “Rustavi 2” recently started a new campaign of defamation and disinformation against the judiciary system. Systematic and unfounded accusations against the judicial system have taken a form of vivid blackmailing and pressure on the courts. These broadcasts shielded with the principles of the freedom of speech have become a tool of fulfilling ambitions and interests in the hands of specific persons. Moreover, each segment of the program, each comment and each analysis is derived of qualified, professional and legal assessment. Speculations and legal expertise of “law specialists” who are unknown to the public and do not even correspond to the level of a beginner in the field.

At the same time, we possess information about the criminal past of some of the members of this television program and their relatives. Given this, one can easily understand why are these journalists are trying to portray persons, accused by the judicial system of committing crimes, as innocent, – by doing so, these journalists are merely trying to rehabilitate their own past.

It can be said that through “60 Minutes” the criminal underworld has started a war against the judicial system. We base this assertion on the fact that “60 Minutes” portrays persons – Kereselidze, Kobalia, Barbakadze and other, accused and sentenced for committing serious crimes, as innocent people and tries to deceive the public.

We would like to declare: the public should be certain that it has a judicial system that will never compromise justice for the fear of broadcasts like these.

Because the television company “Rustavi 2” deprived the judicial system of the opportunity to provide public with objective information, we are obliged to assure the public that putting pressure on the judicial system, as well as the goal of this television program, will never be fulfilled; we will always assess it as the only way for the people with the criminal past to express their aggression.

The latest broadcast of the “60 Minutes” expressed with special phrasing the idea that the Supreme Court opposes “60 Minutes.” We would like to declare publicly that the Supreme Court only carries out justice and never participates in any political or other ambitious confrontations. Thereby, we will not let the authors of this television program put their incompetence on the same level as the qualification of the Supreme Court by artificially creating a confrontation.

Proceeding from all the abovementioned, we would like to inform the public of the following:

The Press-Office of the Supreme Court

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