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Georgia's ex-PM Merabishvili sentenced to another 6 years in jail

Xinhua, September 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

Tbilisi City Court on Thursday ruled Vano Merabishvili, former prime minister of Georgia, guilty of beating parliamentarian Valery Gelashvili in 2005 and sentenced him to another six years and nine months in prison.

Merabishvili is now serving a four year and a half years prison sentence for exceeding his powers in the case involving the dispersal of an opposition rally in May 2011.

The court also found Erekle Kodua, former head of the Georgian Interior Ministry's special operative department, and Giorgi Siradze, former official from this department, guilty of beating the parliament representatives.

The court sentenced them to nine years in prison in absentia. Kodua and Siradze are now outside of Georgia.

Mikheil Saakashvili, former president of Georgia, who is now head of the administration of the Odesa region of Ukraine, is also implicated in the case involving the attack on Gelashvili. The Saakashvili case is being tried separately. Endit