UN Human Rights Office urges investigation on Tatunashvili’s case
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The United Nation’s Human Rights Office has twitted about the death of Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili in the country’s occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
We are concerned about the death in detention of #Georgia citizen Archil Tatunashvili on 22 Feb. in Tskhinvali. We call for a credible & transparent investigation into the facts surrounding his death & stand ready to support the process.
— UN Human Rights (@UNHumanRights) February 26, 2018
De facto Tskhinvali has refused to hand over the Tatunashvili’s body. The de facto leadership says that they are waiting for Russian experts to study the body.
Tatunashvili and two others were detained by occupation forces on February 22 in Akhalgori area, on territory currently controlled by Russians.
After Tatunashvili’s death on February 23, his friends were released. However, they were deprived of their identification and transport documents.
The government of Georgia and the international community have condemned the fact, demanding the fair investigation of the death and punishment of those involved.
The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Georgia, Kerstin Lundgren and Titus Corlatean, have expressed their deep concern and condemned the death of Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili while being detained by the de facto authorities in Georgia’s Russian occupied region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
The Georgian Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze has addressed the recent death of Georgian citizen Artchil Tatunashvili in the Tskhinvali region, as well as the previous murder of Giga Otkhozoria in the occupied regions from the UN high tribune.
The latest developments in Georgia’s Russian occupied region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia), in particular the tragic death of Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili and the detention of two others, are a source of grave concern, the European Union (EU) Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Service said in its recent statement.
The European Union (EU) Special Representative for the South Caucasus Toivo Klaar is concerned about the death of Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili in the country’s Russian occupied Tskhinvali region. Klaar believes the upcoming Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) meeting scheduled on March 1 is the right format to establish facts about the case.
The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council has adopted a new resolution on Cooperation with Georgia supporting the country's territorial integrity and sovereignty within its internationally recognized borders.
Giving the example of the tragic death of Archil Tatunashvili in Russian occupied region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia), Georgia’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) Kaha Imnadze said the Russian occupation has turned Georgia’s Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions into territories where murder and torture are unaccounted for.