Zviad Kharazishvili

Designation identifiers

UKSL unique ID

GHR0145

OFSI group ID

16713

Designation type

Individual

Date designated

19 December 2024

Last updated

9 April 2025

Regimes

• The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020

Designation sources

• UK

Sanctions imposed

• Asset freeze
• Travel Ban
• Director Disqualification Sanction

Official reasons

• Zviad Kharazishvili is an involved person within the meaning of the Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 on the basis of the following ground: Zviad Kharazishvili is and/or has been responsible for, and engaged in, activity which amounts to a serious violation of the right of individuals not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Specifically, during the protests that occurred after the passage of the foreign influence law, security forces from the Ministry of Internal Affairs Special Task Department (Special Task Department), and Tbilisi Police Department, violently targeted Georgian citizens, political opposition leaders, journalists, and youth activists. In their role as Chief of the Special Task Department, this violence was overseen by Zviad Kharazishvili.

Other information

• The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.

Addresses

• Lines: Apartment 71
• Lines: Gldani Bldg 86
• Lines: Micro District III
• Lines: Tbilisi
• Country: Georgia