US puts sanctions on four Georgian judges over ‘significant corruption’
by Daniel Boffey Chief reporter from World news | The Guardian on (#6AQEB)
US does not mention case of Mikheil Saakashvili but move coincides with protests in Tbilisi over ex-president's detention
Four current and former judges in Georgia have been put on a US sanctions list amid a wave of protests in Tbilisi against the failure of Georgian courts to release the former president Mikheil Saakashvili, a prominent Kremlin critic, from jail.
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has accused the men - who have chaired courts and sat on the Georgia's high council of justice, which oversees the judiciary - of significant corruption". They deny the accusations.
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