Getting even uglier

The Georgian government is now apparently in the process of shutting down TV stations.

Print Email Last Update: Sunday, November 23, 2003. 7:49am (AEDT) Georgia's Govt TV channel off air: report Georgia's Government controlled television station has gone off the air and an opposition station said the authorities were trying to shut it down.

"We don't know what's going on. We just went off the air," a worker at the Government channel told AFP.

Meanwhile, the country's most popular station, Rustavi-2, which has backed opposition protest against President Eduard Shevardnadze, said on air that armed men were heading towards its headquarters to turn it off.

Yeah, this ain't good.