Tbilisi, March 17, 2025 (AFP) - Georgia court slaps fresh 4.5-year prison term on jailed ex-leader Saakashvili: lawyer

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A Georgian court on Monday sentenced ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili to four and a half years behind bars for illegally crossing the border, bringing the pro-Western politician's total sentence to 12.5 years. Saakashvili, 57, was sentenced in absentia in 2018 to six years in prison for abuse of office and, last week, he received a nine-year sentence for misspending public funds. He began serving the term in 2021, when he returned to the country......

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