Lilu Mirotadze, journalist at primetime.ge violated 7th and 8th principle
08.03.2018
The publication concerned confrontation among school pupils and homicide in Tbilisi, on Khorava street. The journalist, Lilu Mirotadze used Facebook post by one of the close people to the murdered teenager, which the applicant thought to be sexist. Only the applicant, NGO Partnership for Human Rights attended the hearing. The journalist sent her opinion to the Council. The Council concluded that the journalistic product in question was discriminatory as it strengthened the stigma that raising children is the sole responsibility of women [mothers]. It holds a woman, who is called a “mother of the murderer” responsible for what happened. Therefore, it violated the seventh principle of the charter, on discrimination. Eighth principle, on children’s rights, was also violated, because the child in question was called a “murderer” when the court had not ruled anything by then.