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MPs grill investigators over Khorava Street murders

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Otar Kakhidze, Sergi Kapanadze and Elene Khoshtaria (Mzia Saganelidze - RFE/RL)

Inves­ti­ga­tors from the Khorava Street murder case faced ques­tion­ing from MPs on Monday, into alleged failures by the inves­ti­ga­tion. A par­lia­men­tary com­mis­sion was set up in the wake of large street protests in Tbilisi, which followed the partial acquittal of the suspects in the case and alle­ga­tions the inves­ti­ga­tion was mis­han­dled. [Read more…]

UNM officially joins anti-government protests in Tbilisi

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UNM MP Nika Melia (Mari Nikuradze/OC Media)

The oppo­si­tion United National Movement Party (UNM), as well as two other minor parties, has announced they are offi­cial­ly joining anti-gov­ern­ment protests currently taking place in Tbilisi. UNM MP Nika Melia addressed crowds gathered outside par­lia­ment after meeting with protest leaders and said the protests would resume on Sunday at 18:00 where they will announce a plan for how to continue [Read more…]

Georgia’s chief prosecutor resigns amidst mass protests

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Zaza Saralidze (Dato Parulava/OC Media)

Georgia’s chief pros­e­cu­tor, Irakli Shotadze, has resigned, following large protests in Tbilisi. The protests have been sparked by what critics call a ‘com­pro­mised inves­ti­ga­tion’ into the fatal stabbing of two teenagers outside a school in Tbilisi in December. On Thursday, Tbilisi City Court found one teenager guilty of killing Levan Dadunashvili, while another was found guilty of the lesser charge of attempted murder on Davit Saralidze, leaving open the question of who killed him. [Read more…]

Tbilisi court partially acquits teenagers of fatal school stabbings

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People gathering at the Prosecutor’s Office where the father of murdered teenager Davit Saralidze is holding a demon­stra­tion (Tatia Khaliani /Liberali)

Tbilisi City Court has acquitted two teenagers of the murder of Davit Saralidze, one of the two teenagers killed in a school brawl in December. The court found one of the defendant’s guilty of killing the second victim, Levan Dadunashvili, while the other was found guilty of the attempted murder of Saralidze. The pair are to be sentenced on 1 June. [Read more…]

Thousands protest ‘compromised investigation’ into Tbilisi school stabbings

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(Mari Nikuradze/OC Media)

Thousands of pro­test­ers blocked Tbilisi’s central Rustaveli Avenue on Sunday demanding a proper inves­ti­ga­tion into last December’s fatal stabbing of two teenagers outside their school. The father of one of the victim’s accused the author­i­ties of tampering with evidence during the inves­ti­ga­tion. [Read more…]

Arrests follow fatal school stabbing in Tbilisi

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A gathering at the Public School #51 in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the victims (Luka Pertaia /OC Media)

Two 16-year-old boys have been stabbed to death in a school brawl in Tbilisi. The Prosecutor’s Office has charged two teenagers with ‘pre­med­i­tat­ed murder of an underage person’, and three others for failing to report the crime. [Read more…]

Mystery fire in Daghestan mountain village: claims of torture and fabrication

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Four men from a small mountain village in southern Russia were detained in November suspected of setting fire to the local gov­ern­ment building. With holes in the official story and torture apparent, relatives of the men say the charges are the work of a new police chief in town, trying to make a name for himself. [Read more…]

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