Georgian opposition figure Giorgi Vashadze jailed in widening crackdown | News

The sentence sees most opposition leaders behind bars as the ruling Georgian Dream squeezes critics and rivals.

A Georgian court has sentenced an opposition leader to seven months in prison, as a crackdown by the governing party on its rivals continues.

The Tbilisi court imposed the sentence on Giorgi Vashadze, a leader of the Strategy Builder party, on Tuesday for failing to cooperate with a commission investigating abuse of power by a former government.

The jailing means that nearly all of…

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