Former PM, now leader of opposition party, faces possible charges over 2019 border standoff

TBILISI, DFWatch–In Georgia, prosecutors have reopened case about a 2019 border incident involving former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, who is the leader of one of the few opposition parties planning to participate in this year’s local elections in October.

The investigation centers on events in the village of Chorchana, near the de facto boundary with Russian-occupied South Ossetia. At the time, Gakharia was Interior Minister and ordered a Georgian police outpost to be set up in disputed forest land.