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Top Rights Court Rejects Former Georgia President's Case

Saakashvili was convicted in 2018 (Credit: AFP)

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday rejected appeals of criminal convictions by Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili, finding the trials in his home country had been fair.

Saakashvili was convicted in 2018 of ordering riot police to brutally beat a Georgian MP in 2005, and of wrongly pardoning a group of interior ministry officers for the 2006 murder of a young man, Sandro Girgvliani.

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