Georgian citizen detained in Gali
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Georgia citizen Aleksandre Natsvlishvili has been detained by so-called border guards near the occupation line in Gali district, Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region today.
The detainee is from Kutaisi and occupants have arrested him for so-called illegally crossing the so called border at the river Enguri.
The information was released by the de-facto interior ministry of Abkhazia and later confirmed by the State Security Service of Georgia.
EU monitoring mission representatives have been informed about the incident, the State Security Service said. In such cases the EUMM enacts the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism telephone hotline to gather information from its patrols along the Administrative Boundary Lines of occupied Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Russian-backed breakaway Abkhazia, like Tskhinvali, calls the occupation line between Abkhazia region and the rest of Georgia "the state border” and treats any cases of line crossing as cases of "illegal border crossing”.
According to official data, Russian occupation forces detained 52 Georgian citizens for "illegally crossing” the so-called border in occupied Abkhazia region last year, while there were 126 illegal detentions in occupied Tskhivali.
The Russia-controlled so-called border guards have detained Georgian citizen David Chalauri near the occupation line with Georgia’s breakaway Tskhinvali region today.
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Russian-controlled border guards have detained 50-year-old Georgian citizen Sergo Darbaidze near the occupation line with Georgia’s breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
Akaki Misireli kidnapped by so called border guards near the administrative boundary line in Gori municipality is currently in Tskhinvali’s police department.
The EU monitoring mission has been informed about the incident and the hot line is enacted, the State Security Service said today.
The Russia-controlled Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) leadership has released a 16-year-old Georgian teenager detained for so-called illegally crossing the border on June 30, near the occupation line with the village of Tchvrinisi, the Georgian State Security Service confirmed.
Georgian Minister of Reconciliation and Civil Equality Ketevan Tsikhelashvili has informed Georgian lawmakers about the severe violations of ethnic Georgian children and citizens in the country’s occupied Abkhazia region.