Gvantsa Kuparadze Released from Imprisonment

On November 11, juvenile prisoner Gvantsa Kuparadze was released from Prison # 5 for women. Politicians from opposition parties, family members and relatives were waiting for her outside the penitentiary setting.

Gvantsa Kuparadze said “she will continue studies at the university where she entered during imprisonment.” She also said that she was arbitrarily imprisoned and hopes the Strasbourg Court will prove her non-guiltiness and find out the truth.

Gvantsa Kuparadze served five years in prison and she has to serve another five years of conditional sentence. She was convicted for the crime that occurred in the territory of Public School # 12 in Gldani-Nadzalevi district on November 14, 2006 where her class-mate Tornike Tkemaladze was wounded. Gvantsa Kuparadze was convicted for the attempt of premeditated murder. Kuparadze did not plead guilty and said Tkemaladze was wounded in front of her by strangers.

Representative of the Free Democrats Thea Tsulukiani said the truth was not estimated because governmental officials, particularly Kote Kublashvili, protected Tkemaladze.

“The young boys had argument regarding mobile phones. Tkemaladze was on the guilty side and he did not want the court to estimate the truth and to name the boys who really wounded him. So, they blamed Gvantsa Kuparadze who witnessed the incident,” said Tsulukiani.

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