President Zurabishvili posthumously awards former MP Koba Davitashvili with medal of honour
Tbilisi City Court has found former Prosecutor General of Georgia Zurab Adeishvili guilty of kidnapping and abuse of official authority in the case of former opposition leader Koba Davitashvili back in 2007. Photo: 1TV
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Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has posthumously awarded former MP and leader of the People’s Party Koba Davitashvili with the medal of honour.
Davitashvili, who died aged 49 in 2020, was kidnapped and severely beaten during the opposition rally in 2007 under the United National Movement government.
On behalf of the Georgian people, today on November 7 President of Georgia once again expresses her gratitude and respect to Koba Davitashvili as a victim of November 7, 2007 [dispersal] who has sacrificed his health and life to the fight for the future of this country and justice”, President Zurabishvili’s press office said.
Reportedly the injuries Davitashvili had received in 2007 caused Bekhterev's disease which is a chronic rheumatic inflammation leading to his eventual death.
Photo: President's press office
Tbilisi City Court has found former Prosecutor General of Georgia Zurab Adeishvili guilty of kidnapping and abuse of official authority in the case of former opposition leader Davitashvili.
However, Davitashvili was confident that former president Mikheil Saakashvili stood behind his assault during the 2007 anti-government rallies.
Tbilisi City Court has found former Prosecutor General of Georgia Zurab Adeishvili guilty of kidnapping and abuse of official authority in the case of former opposition leader Koba Davitashvili.
Former MP and leader of the People’s Party Koba Davitashvili died earlier today at a hospital aged 49.
On November 7, 2007 a series of anti-government protests took place across Georgia and ended with protesters being dispersed by police who used tear gas and water cannons.
Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation about a crime committed under the former government involving illegal detention and kidnapping of a former opposition leader, Koba Davitashvili.
Crowds have gathered in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi today, 14 years after the November 2007 political crisis in Georgia, which nearly ended the rule of the United National Movement leadership in the country.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili on Friday awarded the country’s diplomatic missions in Ukraine with the Medal of Honour for “high professionalism, work and loyal service” in the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of the country.