In addition to the revocation of the license, the Court of Tiflis arranged the arrest of all the goods of the channel of television.

"Imedi" stopped expressing last November 7 when a group of the special forces assaulted the head office of the channel, incident that was narrated directly by the presenter of the newscaster.

Some hours later, the Georgian president Mijaíl Saakashvili decreed the state of emergency, with what since then the Public Television is the average only one that can spread news.

"Imedi" covered extensively and in alive the multitudinous declarations summoned from November 2 by the opposition to demand the advance of the legislative elections and the Saakashvili resignation.

Also, the richest man of the country and founder of "Imedi", Badri Patarkatsishvili, used the channel to correct of "fascist" to the Saakashvili diet and to move forward that he would finance the activities of the opposition.

The opposition criticized today hardly the revocation of the license of "Imedi" and threatened to summon new protests and boycott the early presidential elections of next January 5.

Also, they linked this judicial decision with the intention of Saakashvili of snatching from his rivals a tribune facing the elections.

In the last days, the European Union, the European Council and several western chancelleries re-lit Saakashvili for "gagging" the press and urged him to raise immediately the state of emergency.

The undersecretary of the North American State for Europe and It was Eurograsping, Mathew Bryza, he made sure on eve in Tiflis that "in the next days there must be resumed the emission of the televisions Imedi and Kavkasia".

"In spite of the claims of the authorities of which these televisions create tension, it is a decision that it is necessary to take", he said.

"Imedi", television founded in 2002 and on hands of the corporation Murdoch's News Corporation from 2006, expresses for satellite for a whole of ten countries.


(Agencies, 15/11/07)