Human Rights Center Releases Monitoring Results
Tbilisi. On August 13, the Human Rights Center has
presented to the public the results of "media monitoring of coverage of
parliamentary elections" in the "Sheraton Metekhi Palace" Hotel.
The
Human Rights Center conducts media monitoring as part of the 4-year project
"Building of Trust towards Electoral Processes" funded by the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID), which is implemented by the International
Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES).
Within
the project framework, the monitors of the Human Rights Center observe the
social and paid political advertisings aired on the following TV channels:
Public Broadcaster, "Imedi", "Rustavi 2",
"Kavkasia", "Maestro" and "9th Channel".
Media
monitoring aims to examine the trends of airing the social and political ads by
media during the pre-election period, expose the secret political advertisings
and to develop recommendations focused on improvement of electoral environment.
Source:humanrights.ge
