A Georgia mayor has banned a local production of Rocky Horror Picture Show. A theatre company in Carrollton, Georgia was set to perform the show until a rehearsal video posted on Facebook revealed dance moves deemed risque. Shocked by the video, Mayor Wayne Garner decided to shut down the show, even though organisers planned to restrict the audience to adults.
Perhaps Mayor Garner would be happier with the censored Glee take on the film:
If you could put the former Soviet state of Georgia on the couch, it would look like it was suffering from a particularly acute case of paranoia. But is there method in the supposed madness of Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili’s obsession with Russian spies? (more…)
A number of Georgian journalists claim they were attacked by a Special Forces police unit who broke up a protest on 26 May. Officers surrounded them and inflicted verbal and physical abuse while removing video equipment and making arrests. A number of journalists were detained for several hours. Beka Sivsivadze, from the independent newspaper, Asaval-Dasavali, claimed: “I told them that we were the journalists but they beat us harder when they heard it.”
