Georgian Accused of Assassination Attempt on President Bush Demands International Defense

“The sentence has been handed down even before the trial began,” Arutyunian told a Tbilisi court on Monday, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported.

Vladimir Arutyunyan is accused of throwing a hand grenade at U.S. President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili while they were addressing a public audience on Freedom Square in central Tbilisi in May of this year.

“I will not testify until the representatives of Human Rights Watch arrive,” the suspect told the court.

Arutyunyan, 27, was arrested in Tbilisi on July 20 after a shootout with Georgian police that resulted in the death of Col. Zurab Kvlividze, the head of the Georgian Interior Ministry’s counterintelligence department.

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