Zaza Saralidze

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Mikheil Kalandia in court. Photo: Mzia Saganelidze/RFE/RL

Georgia

Killer of Davit Saralidze sentenced to 15 years for murder

by OC Media

•2 min read

Tbilisi City Court has sentenced Mikheil Kalandia to 15 years in prison for the premeditated murder of teenage boy Davit Saralidze in late 2017. The court sentenced the 20-year-old for the group murder of Saralidze on 25 February. The murder of two 16-years-old boys, Davit Saralidze and Levan Dadunashvili, during a school brawl on Tbilisi’s Khorava Street in December 2017 sent shockwaves across Georgia. The authorities’ failure to identify the killers in the case led to massive protests i

Georgia

New arrest in Khorava street murder a day after court rules killing remained unsolved

by OC Media

•3 min read

Police have arrested a key witness in the Khorava Street murders on charges of the group murder of Davit Saralidze. His arrest on Tuesday came just a day after the Tbilisi Court of Appeals ruled that one of Saralidze’s killers had not been identified or charged by prosecutors. On 3 June, the court of appeals ruled that one person initially convicted for ‘attempted murder’ of Saralidze was guilty of his murder, but that that the Khorava Street killings remained partially unsolved. In a sta

Georgia

Court rules accomplice in Saralidze murder still unidentified

by OC Media

•3 min read

The Tbilisi Court of Appeals has ruled that one of the killers of 16-year-old Davit Saralidze has not been identified by investigators. In their ruling on 3 June, the court ruled that one person initially convicted for ‘attempted murder’ of Saralidze was guilty of murder, but that that the Khorava Street killings remained partially unsolved. In December 2017, two 16-years-old boys, Davit Saralidze and Levan Dadunashvili, died from multiple stab wounds sustained during a school brawl that br

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

Georgia

Khorava Street murder commission accuses officials of cover-up

by OC Media

•5 min read

A parliamentary commission into last December’s fatal school stabbings has concluded that the investigation was compromised in order to protect a high-ranking official and his relatives. Ruling party members of the committee disputed the findings of the opposition-led commission, which held the Interior Minister and Justice Minister ‘politically responsible’, arguing it had been politicised. In their 67-page conclusion, the commission, headed by the European Georgia Party’s Sergi Kapanadze,

Children's Rights

MPs grill investigators over Khorava Street murders

by OC Media

•5 min read

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. Zviad Pkhakadze, the prosecutor on the case, and chief detective Kakha Siradze faced questions over alleged mistakes made in the course of the investigation. Thi