Tbilisi City Court has convicted Lazare Grigoriadis of attacking a police officer and arson during the March 2023 protests against Georgia’s draft foreign agent law, sentencing him to nine years in prison, Paralel.Az reports citing Georgian media.

Lazare Grigoriadis was the first person to be detained for their participation in the foreign agent law protests in March 2023.

Grigoriadis was convicted on two charges, harming a police officer’s health in connection with their official activities and destroying someone else’s property by setting fire.