TBILISI -- Georgian prosecutors have accused former President Mikheil Saakashvili of authorizing a plot to kill an opposition politician who died in Britain in early 2008…
Parliamentarian Soso Djachvliani, who participated in the November 20 Tbilisi protest, questioned why Kvitsiani had received a far more severe sentence than either…
(Others include former Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaya, former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili, and former Tbilisi mayor Gigi Ugulava.)
Former high-ranking Georgian official Bacho Akhalaya, pictured here in 2009
The Chechen accuses three senior Georgian officials – including former Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaya -- of leading the Chechens into a "trap.
Bacho Akhalaya, who served first as defense minister and then briefly last summer as interior minister, was arrested in November and is currently on trial on…
Bacho Akhalaya resigned as interior minister in September 2012 after TV stations showed prison guards beating a prisoner and sodomizing him with a broom handle.
It is not clear whether damaging allegations posted on his Facebook page by former senior Interior Minister Dato Akhalaya may have demolished Merabaishvili’s…
In October, however, a prominent member of the Chechen community in Georgia, Umar Idigov, said it was former Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaya who conceived the idea…
He said he wanted to expose the role of Interior Minister Bacho Akhalaya and others in the torture and sexual humilation of prisoners.
