Both men denied the charges, calling the trial politically motivated. Saakashvili, Georgia's president between 2004-2007 and 2008-2013, sought to take his country on a pro-Western path but lost ...

Chaos erupted in the Georgian courtroom as the verdict was announced, with Mikheil Saakashvili’s supporters calling the judge a ''slave'' of the current government. Saakashvili was found guilty ...

Saakashvili, Ex-President of Georgia, Gets 4 1/2 Years More in Jail, Interpress Reports MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili was sentenced on Monday to four-and-a-half ...

After being sentenced while out of the country to six years for abuse of power, Saakashvili was first jailed when he returned to Georgia in 2021. Last week, he received nine years for misspending ...

Georgia Ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili's Prison Terms Now Total Over 12 Years After Latest Verdict TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — A court in Georgia on Monday handed another prison sentence to former ...

Ex-President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili said that she tried to convince the government of the country to replace ...

Nika Melia, a leader of the Georgian opposition, was placed in pre-trial detention amid a crackdown against the pro-Western opposition. The Georgian Dream party is accused of authoritarian leanings, ...

A court in Georgia ordered opposition party leader Zurab Japaridze detained Thursday on charges of failing to appear before a ...

Saakashvili, who served as Georgia’s president from 2004-2013, had previously been sentenced on charges of abuse of power and embezzlement that he and his defence have rejected as politically ...

A man holds a poster depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and Georgia's jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili during an ...

FILE - Georgia's jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili appears on a screen via a video link from a clinic during a court hearing in the case of the violent dispersal of anti-government mass ...

MOSCOW, March 17 (Reuters) - Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili was sentenced on Monday to four-and-a-half more years in jail after being found guilty of illegally crossing the state ...