Police investigate attack on suspect in the Georgia-Azerbaijan ‘land forfeit’ case, Mtavari TV crew in David Gareji
Iveri Melashvili told Palitra TV that this attack ‘seemed to be orchestrated’ by someone else. Photo: Mzia Saganelidze/RFERL Agenda.ge, 4 May 2021 - 21:02, Tbilisi,Georgia
Police are investigating an attack on a suspect in the Georgia-Azerbaijan ‘land forfeit’ case Iveri Melasvhili and the crew of opposition-minded Mtavari Arkhi TV which occurred earlier today in David Gareji.
Mtavari Arkhi TV has reported that Melashvili and their crew were attacked by drunk clergy while they were making a video report.
Iveri Melashvili. Photo: Mzia Saganelidze/RFERL
14 Feb in 11:10 Eurasianet
Iveri Melashvili never expected to be famous. Nearing retirement after a modest government career in cartography, the 62-year-old’s name has suddenly made national headlines and led TV broadcasts – vilified as a traitor or honored as a political martyr. As Eurasianet reports, he stands accused of literally selling out his homeland, 14 square kilometers of it. In the authorities’ telling, he deliberately gave bad cartographic advice to the government that all but resulted in the handover of a little bit of the country’s territory to Azerbaijan. They have charged him with treason.
“This is like a bad dream,” Melashvili told Eurasianet while sitting at his desk, maps strewn in front of him. “Everything is so absurd and terrible that I don’t even know where to start.” After spending four months in jail with another cartographer colleague, Natalia Ilychova, Melashvili was released on bail on January 28. The verdict in the case is still pen
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Civic movement posts bail for suspects in Georgia-Azerbaijan ‘land forfeit’ case
Melashvili and Ilichova will not be able to leave the country before the court delivers a verdict in the case. Photo: RFE/RL. Agenda.ge, 29 Jan 2021 - 15:04, Tbilisi,Georgia
Money has been collected to fully post bail for Iveri Melashvili and Natalia Ilichova, who are charged in the Georgia-Azerbaijan ‘land forfeit’ high profile case, the civic movement Sirtskhvilia (Geo. Shame) stated yesterday after the release of the suspects.
Melashvili and Ilichova were released on 20,000 GEL bail each on January 28.
After the release, the civic movement Sirtskhvilia (Geo. Shame) called on the public to collect money for Iveri Melashvili and Natalia Ilichova in order to cover the bail.