Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Court told ex-president Saakashvili protected Girgvliani's murderers

Sandro Girgvliani was 28 years old when he was murdered in January, 2006.
Irakli Okruashvili. (GPB.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A former minister claimed Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili protected several high ranking officials from prosecution as the high-profile trial about the murder of a young bank employee in Georgia eleven years ago continued in Tbilisi on Monday.

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Top state auditor stays away from police questioning for health reasons

Otar Partskhaladze. (Rustavi 2.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The head of Georgia’s state audit office refused to be questioned by police on Monday, after alleging that a former chief prosecutor attacked him at a bar Friday night.

Lasha Tordia excused himself on the grounds of his poor health condition after Friday’s incident

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Georgia bars former Moscow mayor Luzhkov from entering

Yuri Luzhkov visiting Abkhazia in 2006
In this photo from 2006, Yuri Luzhkov (right) is seen in Abkhazia with Abkhaz and Russian politicians. (Alexander Popov/TASS.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has placed the former mayor of Moscow on its ‘black list’ of people barred from entering the country. Yuri Luzhkov was briefly in Georgia last weekend and the opposition called for his prosecution for violating a 2008 law.

When Luzhkov’s tourist trip became

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