European Court of Human Rights upholds Saakashvili's criminal convictions, deeming Georgian trials fair and non-political.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's appeals of his criminal convictions, ruling that Georgian courts conducted fair trials and that the prosecutions were not politically motivated. Saakashvili was convicted in 2018 for ordering riot police to brutally beat a Georgian MP in 2005 and for wrongly pardoning a group of interior ministry officers for the 2006 murder of a young man, Sandro Girgvliani. Saakashvili has three months to decide whether to request an appeal to the Grand Chamber of the ECHR.
May 23, 2024
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