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Buta Robakidze Killing

Buta Robakidze Killing

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‘Anti-UNM’ tents set up outside Georgian parliament
2019 Gavrilov’s Night Protests

‘Anti-UNM’ tents set up outside Georgian parliament

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A newly launched movement vowing to counter Georgia’s former ruling party, the United National Movement (UNM), has set up tents in front of Parliament in an effort to reclaim the space for the ‘real voice of the people’. The group, Let’s Preserve Lives, say they want to prevent the return to power of anyone associated with the former UNM government, including from the European Georgia party, which broke away in January 2017.  On the night of 10 December, a fist-fight broke out outside par

Five Georgian officials convicted over Robakidze killing cover-up
Buta Robakidze Killing

Five Georgian officials convicted over Robakidze killing cover-up

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Five former senior officials have been convicted of attempting to cover up the 2004 killing of 19-year-old Buta Robakidze by police. The verdict came after over a decade of campaigning by the victim’s family and rights groups, who had claimed the case had been shelved. On Tuesday, Tbilisi City Court sentenced four of the five — Irakli Pirtskhalava, Guram Donadze, Zura Mikadze, and Davit Iashvili — to 5 years and 3 months in prison for abuse of official power. The former head of Georgia’s

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