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Tbilisi City Court has sentenced former Prime Minister and leader of the “Gakharia for Georgia” party, Giorgi Gakharia, to imprisonment in absentia in connection with the June 20 protest case.

“I advise everyone to immediately start taking care to hire qualified lawyers,” said Davit Usupashvili, one of the leaders of Lelo - Strong Georgia, speaking about the launch of criminal proceedings against Georgia’s former Prime Minister and For Georgia party leader, Giorgi Gakharia.

According to Giorgi Sharashidze, a member of parliament from the Gakharia for Georgia party, there is nothing surprising about the ongoing processes against Giorgi Gakharia, and it once again proves that the party’s decision to enter parliament was the right one.

“I want to inform you about a crime: I had a meeting at Rustavi No. 12 Penitentiary with the rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe — exactly the same people with whom communication is considered treason against the homeland,” — writes Zurab “Girchi” Japaridze, one of the leaders of the Coalition for Change, on social media, addressing the Prosecutor’s Office:

Giorgi Gakharia, Chairman of the party “Gakharia – For Georgia” and former Prime Minister, has issued a statement concerning the start of criminal proceedings against him.

On November 13, 2025, Ararat Mirzoyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, will visit Georgia on an official visit, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia has announced.

“This gives me the feeling that a time is coming when the authorities can blame anyone for anything,” said former Minister of Economy Giorgi Kobulia in the “Sakme” program on Palitra News and Radio Palitra, in response to a question about the initiation of criminal proceedings against Georgia’s former Prime Minister and leader of the “Gakharia for Georgia” party, Giorgi Gakharia.

“This time, the prison is completely full. Far more guards accompany me than before — apparently, they’re afraid I might recruit others from the cell and start a revolution,” reads a letter from Georgia’s third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, published on his social media account.

Former Prime Minister and leader of the "For Georgia" party, Giorgi Gakharia, has been sentenced to pre-trial detention in absentia in connection with the so-called Chorchana episode.

Completion of compulsory military service will no longer be a necessary prerequisite for enrollment in Georgia’s Special State Protection Service (SSPS).

According to the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia, in connection with the events of October 4 — involving the attempted group seizure of a strategic facility, organization and leadership of group violence, participation in such violence, and public incitement to overthrow the constitutional order or state authority through violence — the process of clarifying charges is underway against 64 defendants.

A protest march from Tbilisi State University toward Rustaveli Avenue will be held on November 28, organizers announced at a briefing in front of Parliament.

The trial of former Prime Minister and leader of the For Georgia party, Giorgi Gakharia, is underway at the Tbilisi City Court in connection with the so-called Chorchana episode.

“In a situation where our members are in prison, our two founding leaders are once again facing the threat of imprisonment, and dozens of people are currently detained because of their political beliefs and activities — it is not surprising that Giorgi Gakharia, the former Prime Minister, has also been charged. I think everyone expected this,” said Grigol Gegelia, one of the leaders of Lelo – Strong Georgia, commenting on the launch of criminal prosecution against former Prime Minister and For Georgia party leader Giorgi Gakharia.

“The figures Nina Sander and Irakli Shaishmelashvili were included in the indictment; however, Murtaz Zodelava does not know either of them,” said Maiko Mumladze, the lawyer of Murtaz Zodelava, who was arrested in connection with the events of October 4.

There was commotion at Georgia’s Agency of Protected Areas as a group of citizens, known as the “Defenders of Baldi Canyon,” demanded a meeting with the agency’s head and called for the cancellation of the lease agreement related to Baldi Canyon, which they claim was signed by the agency’s former leadership.

The military aircraft that crashed in Georgia did not have any ammunition on board, according to Turkish media citing a statement from the country’s Ministry of National Defense.

“The political retribution is entering a new phase of revenge. I see no indicator that this phase will be lighter than the previous one; on the contrary, I believe a new wave of repression is expected in the country.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as a result of continuous three-day search operations conducted by the relevant authorities of Georgia and Turkey, all 20 crew members’ bodies have been recovered at the site of the Turkish military plane crash in the Sighnaghi municipality and its surrounding area.

“No information was directly provided to the clinic, to Mikheil Saakashvili himself, to the lawyers, or to the family. The penitentiary service did not provide any prior notice that this action was planned,” said Beka Basilia, lawyer for Georgia’s third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, speaking to journalists.

“These charges are, of course, completely absurd and nothing but political retribution and revenge — something that Bidzina Ivanishvili had already announced before the 2024 parliamentary elections. Therefore, nothing was unexpected; we were ready,” said Giorgi Sharashidze, an MP from the For Georgia party, while speaking to journalists about the charges brought against the party’s leader, Giorgi Gakharia.

“Ivanishvili starts every morning with an obsessive thought — well, whom shall I harm today? This time, yesterday he returned me to Dilege. Of course, they moved me to Rustavi prison without warning, where exactly the same people awaited me who poisoned me in March 2022. Back then I miraculously survived and I still have the symptoms of that poisoning to this day.