Statements

Kakheti office of Human Rights Center defends the legal interests of the victim’s assignee in the criminal case of woman’s murder that was motivated by gender. The criminal case is about killing of N. T. by her former husband in Lagodekhi on January 15, 2021. 

The former husband of the killed woman G. B. is defendant under the Article 109 Part 2 – “f” of the Criminal Code of Georgia – intentional killing under aggravating circumstances against a family member. Having killed the woman in the flat she was renting, the defendant G.B. staged a scene of suicide by natural gas intoxication. The killed woman had three underage children, who now grow up in the family of their uncle, mother’s brother. 

Human Rights Center submitted its position with regard to the formulation of the charge and qualification of the action to the investigator and then to the Kakheti regional prosecutor’s office on March 15, 2022.

HRC believes that the crime against N. T. was committed by gender motive – purposefully against the woman. The evidence collected in the course of investigation and the testimony of the defendant enables the investigation and the prosecutor’s office to identify gender motive in the crime. The evidence are enclosed to the criminal case files. Article 109 Part 2 – “d1” of the Criminal Code of Georgia envisages the crime committed on grounds of gender identity as one of the aggravating circumstances. 

HRC has already petitioned the Kakheti regional prosecutor’s office to determine the qualification of the charge against the defendant and add the gender motive to the imposed charge. 

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