Terror in Georgia: Anton Chechin has been sentenced to 8 years and 6 months in prison for standing with Georgia's pro-European movement, - the fifth President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, writes about this on the social platform X.

In her assessment, this is “a brutal act of political terror by a regime that is determined to silence the European future of the country.”

“Anton Chechin has been sentenced to 8 years and 6 months for standing with Georgia’s pro-European movement. This is not justice - it is a brutal act of political terror by a regime determined to silence the European future of our country”, she wrote.

Tbilisi City Court sentenced a citizen of the Russian Federation, Anton Chechin, who is accused of drug crimes, to 8 years and 6 months in prison.

Anton Chechin was arrested on December 3, 2024. He is charged under Article 260, Part 6 of the Criminal Code, which refers to the purchase, storage, and possession of a particularly large amount of narcotic drugs and provides for a sentence of 8 to 20 years or life imprisonment.