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Language barriers limited Georgia's ethnic minorities' access to
information - State Department report
April 20, 2013 | 17:36
Among the most important human rights problems reported in Georgia
last year were torture and abuse of prisoners, says the State
Department's 2012 Report on Human Rights Practices.
`Torture and abuse of prisoners, detainees, and others by government
corrections and law enforcement officials before the October change in
government, as well as dangerously substandard prison conditions,' the
reports says.
Other problems reported during the period were shortfalls in the rule
of law, such as lack of judicial independence and a lack of objective
judicial scrutiny of executive actions, impediments to the exercise of
the fundamental freedoms of association, assembly, and expression,
particularly for members of the political opposition.
According to the report, Georgia was primarily a source country, but
also a transit country, for trafficking in persons.
Both geography and language barriers limited ethnic minorities' access
to information. `Local government officials in Samtskhe-Javakheti
voiced concern that the lack of significant Georgian news programs in
minority languages alienated many members of national minority
communities,' the report says.
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information - State Department report
April 20, 2013 | 17:36
Among the most important human rights problems reported in Georgia
last year were torture and abuse of prisoners, says the State
Department's 2012 Report on Human Rights Practices.
`Torture and abuse of prisoners, detainees, and others by government
corrections and law enforcement officials before the October change in
government, as well as dangerously substandard prison conditions,' the
reports says.
Other problems reported during the period were shortfalls in the rule
of law, such as lack of judicial independence and a lack of objective
judicial scrutiny of executive actions, impediments to the exercise of
the fundamental freedoms of association, assembly, and expression,
particularly for members of the political opposition.
According to the report, Georgia was primarily a source country, but
also a transit country, for trafficking in persons.
Both geography and language barriers limited ethnic minorities' access
to information. `Local government officials in Samtskhe-Javakheti
voiced concern that the lack of significant Georgian news programs in
minority languages alienated many members of national minority
communities,' the report says.
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