Mutineer Veterans Jailed, Trial Pending

(Tbilisi. March 27, 2003. Civil Georgia) – A Tbilisi District Court on March 26 sentenced 15 former servicemen of the National Guard participating in March 23 mutiny to three-month detention while further pre-trail investigation goes on.

19 participants of the mutiny, which seized the military base in Tbilisi surrendered police on March 24. 4 of them were released.

15 former servicemen of the National Guard are charged for seizing facility of vital importance.

Georgian leadership says “certain forces” stood behind the mutiny, aiming at destabilizing situation in the country, while the veterans of the National Guard claim social hardship triggered their desperate move. 

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