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Bidzina Ivanishvili

Protest leader and father of slain Georgian teen arrested for assaulting police

by OC Media

•6 min read

Police in Georgia have arrested the father of 16-year-old David Saralidze, who was murdered outside a school in Tbilisi in December. Zaza Saralidze, who has been protesting continuously for months, tried to prevent police from dismantling a tent outside parliament. On Friday, police attempted to prevent Saralidze from covering mattresses from the rain in front of Tbilisi’s Parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue. He has been camped outside the building almost continuously for the past fiv

Corruption

Subeliani Tapes: witness ‘bribed’ in Khorava Street murder investigation

by OC Media

•4 min read

Georgian authorities attempted to bribe one of the witnesses of the Khorava Street murder into changing their testimony, a new recording released by the Prosecutor’s Office suggests. The Prosecutor’s Office published another unauthenticated audio conversation, allegedly between Mirza Subeliani and two unidentified men, on Sunday. The conversation reportedly took place in prison on 10 October. Subeliani, a former high-ranking official at the Prosecutor’s Office is currently in pre-tri

Analysis

Analysis | Georgia’s tapes scandals suggest something is rotten at the top of Georgian politics

by OC Media

•8 min read

The Omega Tapes scandal, and now secret recordings of former official Mirza Subeliani, suggest Georgia’s government has serious questions to answer. When Georgian Dream swept to power in 2012, they did so on the back of popular anger at the justice and security apparatus under the then ruling United National Movement (UNM). Outrage over the 2012 prison rape scandal drove tens of thousands of people into the streets — and into the polling stations. Georgian Dream leaders decried the U