Tamar Lortkipanidze, a protester who climbed onto a police car during an anti-government rally on Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Avenue on October 22, 2025, has reached a plea deal and been sentenced to one year in prison. Having already spent eight months in pre-trial detention, she will therefore be released in four months.
Initially arrested on “hooliganism” charges, Lortkipanidze was later charged with “attack on a police officer’s vehicle” in connection with the incident, as well as “violence causing physical pain” over a separate episode the same night, during which she was seen in a confrontation with a taxi driver. Prosecutors alleged she punched the driver. She faced four to seven years in prison.
Lortkipanidze pleaded guilty to the charges against her, resulting in a one-year prison sentence and a further three-year suspended sentence.
Her plea deal comes amid a series of similar agreements in other protest-related cases, primarily linked to the October 4 election-day unrest case, which have resulted in the release of dozens of protesters and reduced sentences.
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