Jury court sentences fifth offender to prison for 2014 death of woman

The jury in Tbilisi City Court on Tuesday unanimously sentenced the fifth offender in a high-profile 2014 suicide of a woman in Georgia’s east to eight years in prison, finding the suspect guilty of illegal deprivation of liberty and gender-based humiliating treatment.

The ruling is the latest decision in the case of Khanum Jeiranova, who was found dead in eastern Georgia’s Sagarejo municipality that year.

Earlier this month, the Court sentenced four individuals to five years and six months in prison for their psychological and physical assault on the woman, who suffered severe abuse from her husband’s relatives.

The Georgian Prosecutor General’s office said the offenders had put Jeiranova in “degrading circumstances on the basis of her gender” and humiliated her in front of locals in the village of Lambalo on September 16, 2014.

It also noted Jeiranova had been dragged out of a car and verbally and physically assaulted two days prior to her death, with the offenders also restricting her freedom.

The actions of the members of the criminal group “caused moral suffering to the victim”, which led her to commit suicide two days following the assault, the state body said.