Human Rights Center’s Report about Vakhtang Maisaia’s Case
One of the leading Georgian political scientists and a military expert, a former Counselor at the Georgian Mission in NATO, Vakhtang Maisaia was arrested on May 5th 2009 in connection with the “ Mukhrovani Mutiny” with charges in espionage for the Russian Federation. The arrest, court hearings and the case in general had a wide response from the side of the civil society. Charges in high treason and spying where put to doubt by representatives of Georgian NGOs.
The report tries to shed light on the case of the alleged spy. It does not aim at disproving or confirming Vakhtang Maisaia’s guilt, but rather tries to uncover controversial details, unknown to the broad public before.
It has been extremely challenging to obtain any information on the case. The whole court hearing with all materials was classified secret, restricting any flow of official information. The prisoner himself however, wrote several letters describing conditions and circumstances
of his arrest, detention, court hearings, evidences and imprisonment. It became possible from this materials, unveiled by his lawyer Mrs. Natia Korkotadze to draw a full picture of what looks like an extremely controversial case.
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