Appeals Court abolished guilty verdict into so-called ‘Photo Reporters’ Case’ and fully acquitted photo reporters
Appeals Court abolished guilty verdict into so-called ‘Photo Reporters’ Case’ and fully acquitted photo reporters
14:59, 22.11.2018

Tbilisi Appeals Court has abolished guilty verdict into so-called ‘Photo Reporters’ Case’ and fully acquitted photo reporters.

The Court of Appeals considered the 2011 City Court judgements, according to which photo reporters Irakli and Natia Gedenidze, Zurab Kurtsikidze and Gia Abdaladze, charged with espionage, were found guilty.

The Chief Prosecutor’s Office had addressed Tbilisi Court of Appeals with the requests to review the judgements because of the newly revealed circumstances. According to the agency, the case was investigated again, witnesses were questioned and it was confirmed that the photo-reporters were detained in 2011 for fictitious espionage charges. The case was opened in June 2016. In relation with the case, the former high-ranking counterintelligence official, Davit Devnozashvili is convicted on the fact of abuse of power and Alexander Mukhadze, former director of N8 Penitentiary Establishment, was sentenced imprisonment in absentia.





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