Two teenage girls, Nia Imnadze and Anastasia Beruashvili, were detained as the prosecution further expanded the circle of minors implicated in the murder case of 28-year-old teacher Giga Avaliani, who died after spending 3 weeks in a coma following an assault near his apartment block in Tbilisi in October 2025.

Imnadze and Beruashvili are reportedly the girlfriends of Aleksandre Gabashvili and Giorgi Rikadze, respectively, two of the main defendants in Avaliani’s case, who were sentenced to 14 years in prison each after being found guilty of "intentional infliction of serious harm to health resulting in death". As they were minors at the time of the crime, their sentences were automatically reduced to 10 years and 6 months.

Nia Imnadze faces a charge of "abetting intentional infliction of serious harm to health by a group" under Article 25-117 of Georgia`s Criminal Code. Anastasia Beruashvili faces a charge of "failure to report a particularly serious crime" under Article 376.