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Georgian protester Grigoriadis, previously sentenced and pardoned, detained on new charges
Lazare Grigoriadis was detained two years after being pardoned.
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Foreign agent law protestor sentenced to four years in prison
Tbilisi City Court has sentenced foreign agent law protester Giorgi Shanidze to four years in prison, months after his arrest at a mass protest against the controversial foreign agent law. Shanidze was arrested on 9 May on charges of damaging a surveillance camera in the vicinity of the Georgian parliament during the rally. He was later additionally charged with growing cannabis. According to local media, Shanidze was sentenced to a year and a half in prison for damaging the surveillance
Georgia
Georgian foreign agent law protester freed after year in prison
Lazare Grigoriadis, convicted of violence during the anti-government protests in Tbilisi in March last year, has been released from prison following President Salome Zourabichvili’s pardon. Zourabichvili announced her decision hours after Grigoriadis was sentenced on 12 April to nine years in prison on charges of arson and attacking a police officer during the March 2023 protests against Georgia’s draft foreign agent law. His release from Tbilisi’s Gldani prison comes as the ruling party are
Georgia
Georgian President to pardon foreign agent law protester Lazare Grigoriadis
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has announced she will pardon Georgian foreign agent law protester Lazare Grigoriadis, after he was sentenced to nine years in prison earlier today. Lazare Grigoriadis, 22, was convicted on Friday morning of attacking a police officer and arson during the March 2023 protests against Georgia’s draft foreign agent law. His conviction comes as the ruling party are once again attempting to bring the controversial legislation back. In an interview with TV P
Georgia
Georgian foreign agent law protester Lazare Grigoriadis sentenced to nine years
Tbilisi City Court has convicted Lazare Grigoriadis of attacking a police officer and arson during the March 2023 protests against Georgia’s draft foreign agent law, sentencing him to nine years in prison. Lazare Grigoriadis, 22, was the first person to be detained for their participation in the foreign agent law protests in March 2023, with ruling Georgian Dream party figures and pro-government media commenting on his appearance and ‘orientation’ in the months that followed his arrest. His se
2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections
Georgian Dream announces draft law against ‘pseudo-liberal ideology’
The ruling Georgian Dream party has announced that it will prepare a draft law to ‘protect’ society from ‘pseudo-liberal ideology’, which appears to be aimed at countering queer rights advocacy. The chair of the party’s parliamentary faction, Mamuka Mdinaradze, stated at a briefing on Thursday that the ruling team would take two weeks to work on the bill before presenting it to parliament. Mdinaradze stated that while human rights in Georgia were ‘protected at a high level, regardless of
Georgia
Georgian foreign agent law protester’s father self-harms in court
The father of Georgian foreign agent law protester Lazare Grigoriadis, who is on trial for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail, has cut open his stomach in court. Beka Grigoriadis was standing trial over a physical altercation with a security guard at a restaurant in Tbilisi, for which he was remanded to eight days in detention. Grigoriadis maintained the government targeted him with ‘provocations’ to stop him from supporting his son. Footage apparently filmed by his brother, Kakhi Grigori
