Georgian media quoted President Saakashvili as saying, "These people will receive what they deserve and their patrons and sponsors will see this. As far as I know hysteric attempts were underway plot coup. The wine embargo Russia has failed to bring results, military provocations as well; so this kind of things coup has been left on their disposal, but these attempts will not harm us if we are consolidated.". The defendants, among whom is Giorgadze's niece Maia Topuria, were convicted and sentenced from 4 to 8 years of imprisonment [http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0917/p07s02-woeu.htm. Topuria's American legal council have decryed the decision to close the courtroom and have urged the government of Georgia to stop the political persecutions against the defendants [http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/03-19-2007/0004548321&EDATE=. The trial is under appeal in Strasbourg .