Garibashvili's Fifth Prison Letter Questions 'Unanswered' Deaths Under Kobakhidze-Mdinaradze Rule

In a fifth public letter from prison, jailed ex-PM Irakli Garibashvili said Mamuka Mdinaradze's Aug 27 resignation from politics could not erase the 'irreparable damage' he says Mdinaradze and PM Irakli Kobakhidze caused the country and Georgian Dream. He demanded answers over what he called unresolved suicides during the 'Kobakhidze-Mdinaradze rule,' singling out the case of rights defender Lazare Jorbenadze, who died shortly after a February 2026 interview criticizing Kobakhidze over alleged land concessions to Azerbaijan: 'The following question must be answered: what was the real reason for the death of rights defender Lazare Jorbenadze?' Conservative Georgian outlets had previously questioned the official suicide finding in Jorbenadze's death.