Interior Ministry warns a public movement’s patrolling at occupation line is risky
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Representatives of Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs have met the members of the public movement "Power is in Unity", who voiced their initiative over voluntary patrolling at the occupation line in order to protect the local people.
The Ministry representatives familiarized the movement members with the risks and challenges of the initiative.
Occupation line is a high-risk area and any type of movement there includes risks,” they told the people.
Consequently we do not think the initiative should be carried out,” the Ministry representatives said to the movement members.
They stressed police respected freedom of expression but preserved a right to act within the law if the movement anyway decided to do what they had announced.
The Ministry people stated that the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) and Interior Ministry units were patrolling at the occupation line with occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) and Abkhazia regions and protected the safety of locals.
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko visited the occupation line in Georgia’s eastern Khurvaleti village, located near the country’s occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.Poroshenko viewed the area with Georgia’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili early in the morning and stressed the line was a "gap between past and future.”
Three men have been detained by so-called border guards near Georgia's Russian-occupied region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) in two days.
Several Russia-controlled soldiers had detained 35-year-old Georgian citizen Mikheil Giginashvili in the village of Bershueti today, near the country’s eastern de facto Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
The detainee, 40-year-old Kakhaber Kisishvili was reportedly detained in the village of Otrevi in the Gori Municipality near the Russian-occupied Georgian region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).