Four current and former judges in Georgia have been put on a US sanctions list amid a wave of protests in Tbilisi against the failure of Georgian courts to release the former president Mikheil Saakashvili, a prominent Kremlin critic, from jail.
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has accused the men – who have chaired courts and sat on the Georgia’s high council of justice, which oversees the judiciary – of “significant corruption”. They deny the accusations.
