Tbilisi City Court sends assailant of Formula TV founder to imprisonment
Police officers on Wednesday arrested the offender, after earlier that day he said he was responsible for assaulting the TV founder in his social media post, telling his followers he had physically attacked Mshvildadze for “insulting the Catholicos Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church and the Church, as well as Georgian nation”. Photo via Tbilisi City Court
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Tbilisi City Court on Saturday sent one individual to imprisonment for assault on one of the Formula TV founders Misha Mshvildadze in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi on Tuesday.
The Court accepted the prosecution’s request to keep the alleged offender in custody, with the next hearing for the case scheduled for August 22.
The defence asked the judge for bail or release of the defendant until the upcoming hearing.
Police officers on Wednesday arrested the offender, after earlier that day he said he was responsible for assaulting the TV founder in his social media post, telling his followers he had physically attacked Mshvildadze for “insulting the Catholicos Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church and the Church, as well as Georgian nation”.
The Georgian Interior Ministry on Friday said it was investigating a clash between supporters of the ruling Georgian Dream and the opposition United National Movement parties in Georgia’s town of Kaspi.
Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs on Wednesday said police officers had arrested an individual for an assault on one of the Formula TV founders Misha Mshvildadze.
The District Court in the central Georgian municipality of Gori on Monday ruled to keep the individual arrested for assault on Zurab Girchi Japaridze, the leader of the Girchi - More Freedom opposition party, in the locality on Saturday in custody, ahead of hearings in the case.
The Georgian Interior Ministry on Saturday said it had launched an investigation into an assault on Zurab Girchi Japaridze, the leader of the Girchi - More Freedom opposition party, in the central Georgian municipality of Gori on Saturday.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Sunday said the violence was unacceptable and had to be punished, noting the Government’s liability was to ensure an appropriate response to a crime and the opposition’s “responsibility” to “at least” condemn it verbally.
Georgia’s Special Investigation Service on Tuesday said it had arrested two individuals for an assault on a SferoNews journalist in Tbilisi earlier this year.
Georgia’s Special Investigation Service on Thursday said it was taking over the investigation of the assault on Misha Mshvildadze, a founder of the Formula TV channel, in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi last week.
Georgia’s Special Investigation Service on Friday said it had arrested one individual for an assault on a Formula TV channel cameraman earlier this month in the eastern Kakheti region.