Rustavi2 releases a special statement:

" What happened today concerns all of us. Therefore  we decided to express our protest. None of us is secured that our private life will not become public tomorrow. They have realized their threats.  Although already passed few hours after the release of a  footage of  politician"s private life , we know from the low enforcement bodies that the investigation has been launched and the footage was blocked.

So far, all the facts that caused  public protest  has not been investigated,  therefore, we are not sure that those individuals , who released the video, will be punished. This is not  the first case when the society requests law enforcement bodies to react rapidly.

The only response  was dismissal of the Deputy Interior  Minister, but even then t it was not adequate punishment and subsequent events have confirmed it. We would like to remind to  authorities  Vladimer  Bedukadze, the author of the cruel footage from prison, who was  fully discharged by the Prosecutor"s Office. Today he says that he is our colleague and even more, he has the status of Human Rights Defender.

We also recall that those  government officials who are still in high positions and who also were organizers of  public broadcasting of torture video.  As for the accused of torture, the bases for their release remains unknown.

We still do not know at what stage is  the investigation of illegal surveillance devices installed at Rustavi 2. We have no answer to the question, Why those  people who may be directly involved in the installation of cameras are in  high positions in governmental structures. What followed Nika Gvaramia"s statement that he was threaten with publishing footage of his personal life.

Remains unknown for the society who was behind illegal surveillance on our colleague Eka Mishveladze. This list is quite long, Manipulation with incriminating evidences and footages of  personal life  must end once and for all and it should not become a weapon of political blackmail.

Therefore, we appeal to the police to involve representatives of  media and civil society in the investigation process. There shouldn"t be questions on one more scandalous case. We also request to release information on all well-known cases  and punish all those responsible for recording  and distributing  this footages severely .

We condemn the actions of those media, which have contributed to spread this footage and suspend cooperation with them. From now on, we will no longer adhere to the information released by the news agency  IPN, because the agency has ignored journalism ethics, as well as the principles of inviolability of private life.

We fully  support all  journalists and employees, who decided to leave the agency after this fact.  As for the ongoing investigation - we think enough time has passed to have clearer information on the fact  especially in the light of  modern technologies if there is a will to make it. We call on the society to resist such shameful actions and not give an opportunity to anyone to implement  their dirty plans. "