De-facto Abkhazia stops prosecution of murderer of Georgian citizen
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De-facto authorities of Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region have freed the individual accused of murdering a Georgian citizen last year near the Administrative Boundary Line (ABL) separating Abkhazia and the rest of Georgia.
The de-facto Abkhazian side informed Georgian officials that the prosecution against Rashid Kanjioghli had ended at the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) meeting in Gali today.
They did not explain why the man who was facing murder charges was cleared.
Kanjioghli, a Russian-controlled "border guard” stationed at the occupation line in Abkhazia, was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment by the Georgian court in absentia. Interpol has also launched an international search for him. However, de-facto Abkhazia refuses to punish the man or hand him to the Georgian side.
Kanjioghli killed a young Georgian man, Giga Otkhozoria, who was trying to transport food into the breakaway region for a funeral ceremony of his late aunt on May 19, 2016.
CCTV camera footage showed Otkhozoria was on Georgian-controlled territory when he was gunned down by Kanjioghli before the latter running away and hiding in occupied Abkhazia.
The Georgian side said ending the prosecution of Kanjioghli is a serious issue, which Tbilisi will raise at the international level.
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