Sixty-seven-year-old Guram Sharadze was a former member of parliament and the leader of the nationalist Language, Motherland, and Faith political movement.
Police have detained a suspect in the May 20 killing. There is no information on a possible motive.
(AFP, Interpress, GHN)
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