Journalist was Beaten up in Gori
Tbilisi. 5 September. “J.H.N”. The regional correspondent of the J.H.N. information agency Saba Tsitsikashvili, was attacked near the railway station in Gori by three unknown persons.
The journalist was cruelly beaten up by the attackers and, suffering from heavy injuries, needed to be transferred to the regional hospital in Gori .
According to Tsitsikashvili, the attacker demanded nothing. The journalist connects this incident to his professional activities.
A few days earlier, he was threatened by Revaz Gogiashvili, head of the judicial department of the regional municipality of Gori. Gogiashvili verbally abused Tsitsikashvili in the building of the municipality which, according to the journalist, was witnessed by several bystanders.
In this regard it is interesting to note that Tsitsikishvili was in the process of writing an article about the “Dzevera” corporation that happens to be property of Gogiashvili’s uncle - Omar Bukhradze. This corporation was created on the basis of a Soviet agricultural union and possesses some plots of land and a couple of agricultural technical entities.
The journalist states that back in the time when Bukhradze was director of the corporation, he made it go bankrupt on purpose, which would provide him with the possibility to buy the entity for a low price.
With these statements Tsitsikashvili seems to provide a possible theory for the attack sustained by him.
Regional law enforcement departments have been notified about the current incident, details are being specified.