One of the organizers of last year’s riots in the Georgian capital, Irakli Okruashvili, was sentenced to five years in prison.
The relevant decision was made by a Tbilisi court, recognizing the former Minister of Defense and the leader of the opposition party Victorious Georgia as guilty of an attempt to seize the republic’s parliament last summer.
As News Front previously reported, in June 2019, a large-scale anti-Russian campaign began in Tbilisi. The reason for this was the fact that the Russian parliamentarian Sergei Gavrilov, as head of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy, was given the chair of the speaker of the Georgian legislative body. In this regard, pro-Western parties launched protests near the parliament, which turned into an assault on the building. Okruashvili just led the radicals.