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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter

Former Georgian president had fair trial, Strasbourg judges rule

Screen shot of the imprisoned former Georgia president Mikheil Saakashvili.
Screen shot, during a court hearing in 2023, of the imprisoned former Georgia president Mikheil Saakashvili. Photograph: Irakli Gedenidze/Reuters

The former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili was fairly convicted of abuses of power for ordering the beating of an opposition MP and pardoning four murderers, human rights judges in Strasbourg have ruled.

Saakashvili, who was president of Georgia from 2004 to 2013, was said by the European court of human rights on Thursday to have failed to show he had been unfairly treated in his trials in 2018.

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