Political Prisoners Are Released

Political Prisoners Are Released

Political prisoners were released yesterday according to the verdict of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court changed the verdict of imprisonment and allowed Soso Toria and Vepkhia Durglishvili, accused of committing a terrorist act against Edward Shevardnadze, to post bail.

Toria and Durglishvili had been detained for terrorist acts against the former president of Georgia on February 9, 1998. The general prosecutor applied to the court and demanded domestic imprisonment for Soso Toria and Vepkhia Durglishvili, though their attorney Malkhaz Jangirashvili argued for their immediate release from the detention. The proceedings have been going on for several years, and after the Rose Revolution defendants applied to the Supreme Court again with a petition containing the signatures of  19 members of the "National Compliance Commission", including Zurab Zhvania and his deputy, Guram Absandze.