Zurab Menteshashvili, 61, has been sentenced to nine months in prison after being found guilty of “repeated road blockage,” marking the first known conviction under the charge introduced as part of controversial amendments adopted in October 2025, which criminalized repeated acts of certain protest-related administrative offences. Tbilisi City Court Judge Nino Galustashvili, who had previously handed down a number of guilty verdicts in other pro…
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