3 sign plea bargain after admitting to violence during June protests
Five people confessed to violence during the June protests in Tbilisi last year on March 5-6. Photo: 1TV.
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A plea bargain has been signed with three individuals earlier today after they confessed to involvement in group violence during the June 2019 protests in Tbilisi.
Zurab Budaghashvili, Kakhaber Kupreishvili and Tsotne Soselia are the three with whom the plea bargain was signed.
A plea bargain was also signed with Giorgi Javakhishvili and Tornike Datashvili yesterday in the same case, after confessing to the crime.
The Tbilisi protests last year, which were sparked by the presence of Russian MPs in the Georgian parliament on June 20, turned into a violent clash between protesters and police in front of the parliament of Georgia.
The dispersal left 240 injured and 305 detained.
Three civilians who received injuries during the June 20 rally dispersal in central Tbilisi have been granted victim status, the Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s Office has reported.
Tbilisi City Court has refused to grant victim status to 16 individuals, including eight journalists, who received injuries during the June 20 rally dispersal in central Tbilisi. The court says that currently there is no sufficient evidence to grant victim status to these individuals.
Tbilisi City Court has left former Defence Minister Irakli Okruashvili in pretrial detention, declining the offer of his lawyer on the payment of 500,000 GEL ($168,000) for bail.
Tbilisi Court of Appeals has left the verdict to deny ex-Defence Minister Okruashvili bail intact.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has launched hearings in cases concerning the excessive use of force by the state and the failure to conduct an effective investigation into the actions taken against journalists and protesters during the dispersal of a rally in June 20-21, 2019.