The Tbilisi City Court, after almost nine years, sentenced four people who organized a “people’s court for inappropriate behavior” over a resident of the village in the east of Georgia – the woman could not withstand the abuse of the villagers and committed suicide.
Each of the accused received five years and six months in prison. The case of another accused will be considered by the jury.
We are talking about the events of 2014: in the village of Lambalo of the Sagaedzhoy municipality, the mother of two children Khanum Jayranov subjected their husband’s relatives, accusing of treason.
Dzheyranov was forced to go through the whole village barefoot, publicly mocking and throwing stones.
The local authorities and the police did not respond to the “People’s Court”, the woman was not provided with the refuge from the state, and she committed suicide – two days later Jayranov was found dead. She has two young children left.
The woman’s husband, Aji Hasanov, wounded one of the organizers of the Lynch court from firearms, he surrendered to the police and was sentenced to seven years in prison – but was pardoned by the fourth president George Margvelashvili.
For many years, the civil sector demanded a complete investigation of the case by Khanum Jaranova and the arrest of the perpetrators.
The organization for the protection of women’s rights “Sapari” for several years has achieved from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia the investigation under the article on humiliating or inhuman circulation.
As a result, the UN committee on the elimination of discrimination against women intervened and only after eight years the defendants were charged.
“The state did not even try to withstand those stereotypes and norms of culture that provoked what had happened. In their testimonies attached to the case, the representative of the local authorities of the village of Lambalo Mahmud Aliyev says that Khanum Dzheyranov, having committed suicide, granted his guilt,” – tells Baya Patarai, the executive director of Sapari.
In October last year, the Tbilisi City Court ordered the state to pay compensation for 100 thousand Lari to the children of a woman.
Sapari’s lawyers demanded payment of 100 thousand Lari for Jaranova’s children, but the court found that 50 thousand for each child would be enough.