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13 November 2012 [16:41] - Today.Az
The Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the City Court on the
imprisonment of former Georgian Defence and Interior Minister Bacho
Akhalaia for two months as a temporary preventive measure. This was the
decision of Judge Manuchar Kapanadze, despite the fact that Akhalaia's
lawyers presented discs which recorded that people giving evidence
against Akhalaia were put under pressure.
The judge offered to pass the data over for investigation as the
Court of Appeal only considered the question of the legality of the
temporary measure.
The lawyers petitioned for the change of arrest to bail on the guarantee of 30 Georgian Parliamentary deputies.
Akhalaia is charged under two articles of the Georgian Criminal Code
333 - abuse of authority and 142 the illegal suppression of freedom.
Lawyers stated after the trial that they intend to appeal the decision of the court at the Strasbourg court.
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