Tbilisi City Court has sentenced 4 individuals to 5 years and 6 months in prison in the case of 30-year-old Khanum Jeiranova's suicide. All of them were found guilty of group-based humiliating treatment.
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According to the prosecutor's office, by the evidence examined at the court hearing, it was confirmed that on September 16, 2014, in the village of Lambalo, Sagarejo district, the defendants, believing that Khanum Jeiranova was doing something inappropriate for a woman, put her in a position that insulted her dignity and honor, subjected her to verbal and physical abuse, after which she was forcibly put in a car and taken to the center of the village, to the public gathering place.
“The defendants referred to the victim in derogatory terms in the presence of the villagers, insulted her, and claimed that she should be punished for her inappropriate behavior. The actions of the members of the criminal group caused the moral suffering of the victim, due to which on September 18, 2014, she committed suicide.
The court found all four individuals guilty of sub-paragraphs “e” and “f” of part 2 of Article 144 tertia (humiliating and inhumane treatment, committed in a group, in violation of the equality of people due to other views) of the Criminal Code of Georgia.
In the case of Khanum Jeiranova, another man is accused, who, in addition to humiliating treatment, is accused of illegal deprivation of liberty. The Tbilisi City Court will consider the case with the participation of a jury. Tbilisi City Court will consider the case with the participation of a jury.
On September 16, 2014, in the village of Lambalo, 30-year-old Khanum Jeiranova's relatives accused her of her husband's treason and attacked her. She was dragged across the village, publicly humiliated in front of her children, and severely beaten, due to which the woman lost consciousness several times. On September 18, 2 days after the incident, Khanum Jeiranova was found dead. The investigation began with the article of incitement to suicide, but nobody has been arrested over the years.
Aji Hasanov, the husband of Khanum Jeiranova, stabbed one of the assailants in the leg and then he turned himself into the police. Aji Hasanov was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 7 years in prison in December 2014 by the Sighnaghi District Court. On September 16, 2016, he was pardoned by the President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili.
In 2015, the then Minister of Justice Tea Tsulukiani said in an interview with the Kakheti Information Center that the case of Khanum Jeiranova should not remain uninvestigated. According to her, the collection of evidence had already started. Despite the promise of Tsulukiani, the case was not investigated.
In 2018, NGOs - Safari and the Human Rights Center, in cooperation with European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), filed a complaint with the UN Women's Rights Committee.
At the end of 2021, the committee established the violation and called on the Georgian authorities to conduct a quick, thorough and independent investigation, as well as to pay fair compensation to Khanum Jeiranova's children.
8 years after the incident, in 2022, the prosecutor's office indicted five people in Jeiranova’s case.
