Georgia court bans TV station

Though Georgia lifted its state of emergency on Friday a court has refused to let the country's most popular privately-owned television station, Imedi TV, to resume broadcasting. A Tblisi court ruled that statements by the station's founder, Badri Patarkatsishvili, calling for demonstrations against the president, Mikhail Saakashvili, were aimed at precipitating a coup. Imedi TV's leading shareholder, Rupert Murdoch's media group, News Corporation, is to challenge the decision. (Via Reporters without Borders)