Giorgi Neparidze, an active participant in miners’ protests in Chiatura who is already serving a lengthy prison term, has been sentenced to one and a half years in prison after being found guilty of “contempt of court” manifested in the “insult” of Kutaisi City Court Judge Tamar Mazanashvili.
According to media reports citing his lawyer, the judge who announced the new sentence on July 7 did not clarify whether the new prison term would be absorbed by the longer sentence Neparidze received in January this year or added to it.
Arrested in April 2025, Neparidze was sentenced in January 2026 to six years and three months in prison by Judge Mazanashvili, who found him guilty of “organizing and participating in group violence,” over an incident in which prosecutors said he and three others assaulted Tenzig Koberidze, director of a mine in the village of Shukruti. Alongside him, the three other miners sentenced to prison in the case were Merab Saralidze, Archil Chumburidze, and Tengiz Gvelesiani.
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