TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia, responding to an intervention from a European court, on Friday suspended a ruling from a domestic court that had placed the country's biggest independent TV station under the control of a close ally of the government.
The country's supreme court on Thursday ordered broadcaster Rustavi 2 returned to its former co-owner, businessman Kibar Khalvashi, in a move critics at home and abroad called an attempt to muzzle the media.
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