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Georgian criminal boss arrested in Tirana with fake passport of Ukraine
Mindia Lavasogli, a Georgian criminal boss, was arrested in Tirana with a fake passport of a Ukrainian citizen and is being prepared for extradition to Georgia, the Albanian police confirmed on Tuesday. They saidLavasogli was arrested on Monday an...
Judge expels Empathy centre chair from trial hearing on Saakashvili
Judge Giorgi Arevadze on Wednesday expelled Mariam Jishkariani, the head of the domestic rehabilitation Empathy centre, from a trial hearing in Tbilisi city court on granting the former president Mikheil Saakashvili’s release on medical grounds or th...
Police arrest 14 for illegal purchase, storage, carrying and sale or firearms, ammunition
The Georgian law enforcement officers have arrested 14 individuals in Tbilisi and regions for illegal purchase and storage, carrying and the sale of firearms and ammunition, the Georgian interior ministry said on Wednesday. The suspects face th...
Court of Appeals finds Lelo opposition leaders guilty of fraud
The Tbilisi Court of Appeals on Thursday found Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze, the co-founders of TBC Bank and the Lelo opposition party, of fraud in the case stemming back to 2008, involving almost $17 million. By the ruling the court rejec...
State Audit Office to investigate “legality”of car handover to opposition leader by wanted ex-official
The State Audit Office on Tuesday said it would look into the case of possible handover of a car to the head of the United National Movement opposition party, Nika Melia, by former, wanted defence minister David Kezerashvili. Levan Bezhashvili, a m...
Sexual violence laws in Georgia “falling well bellow” int’l standards – Equality Now
Sexual violence laws in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan are falling “well below international human rights standards” in both how their legislation is written and implemented, a report by Equality Now, an international women’s rights ...
Former policeman sentenced to life imprisonment for murder of parents
Giorgi (Ducha) Berozashvili, a former policeman accused of assassination of his parents under aggravating circumstances, on Monday was sentenced to life imprisonment by Tbilisi City Court. The incident took place on April 27, last year, in a reside...
Retired soldier kills 5 in Georgian Sagarejo province, wounds 5
A retired soldier killed five, including a police officer, and injured five in Georgia’s eastern Sagarejo province early on Friday, before committing suicide. The Interior Ministry said the man, who had served in the country’s defense ministry betw...
Father pledges renewed trials into his son’s case of death after ECHR ruling
Malkhaz Machalikashvili, father of Temirlan Machalikashvili, a 19-year-old killed in an anti-terrorist raid in 2017 in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge, on Thursday pledged to fight for renewed trials into the case after the ruling of the European Court of Hu...
ECHR announces ruling on Temirlan Machalikashvili case
The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday announced its judgment in the high-profile case of murder of Temirlan Machalikashvili in an anti-terrorist raid in Georgia’s Muslim-populated Pankisi Gorge in 2017. The court said there had been a viol...
