{"id":206003,"date":"2025-11-06T14:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=206003"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:59:33","slug":"criminal-case-brought-in-georgia-against-saakashvili-and-7-opposition-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/206003\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal case brought in Georgia against Saakashvili and 7 Opposition leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The Prosecutor General&rsquo;s Office of Georgia has launched a criminal case against former President Mikheil Saakashvili and several opposition leaders on charges of sabotage and incitement to overthrow the government, Prosecutor General Giorgi Gvarakidze said at a briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Criminal prosecution has been initiated against Mikheil Saakashvili, Giorgi Vashadze, Nika Gvaramia, Nikanor Melia, Zurab Girchi Japaridze, Elene Khoshtaria, Mamuka Khazaradze, and Badri Japaridze for crimes against the state &mdash; in particular, for sabotage, aiding a foreign state in hostile activities, financing actions directed against the constitutional order and national security, and calling for the violent overthrow of the constitutional order or state power,&rdquo; Gvaramidze said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prosecutor General&rsquo;s Office of Georgia has launched a criminal case against former President Mikheil Saakashvili and several opposition leaders on charges of sabotage and incitement to overthrow the government, Prosecutor General Giorgi Gvarakidze said at a briefing. &ldquo;Criminal prosecution has been initiated against Mikheil Saakashvili, Giorgi Vashadze, Nika Gvaramia, Nikanor Melia, Zurab Girchi Japaridze, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":206001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,97,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-georgia-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206004,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206003\/revisions\/206004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}