National Forensics Bureau: Tatunashvili sustained over 100 injuries while alive
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The results of the autopsy carried out by the Georgia’s National Forensics Bureau shows that 35-year-old soldier Archil Tatunashvili, who died in unclear circumstances in occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region on February 23 2018, sustained more than 100 injuries all over his body while alive.
"All injuries were received while he was alive. They were caused by the multiple use of a blunt tool,” says the findings of the Forensics Bureau. This document is only a part of the complex examination, which should find the real reasons behind the death of the Georgian soldier.
According to the document, handed to Tatunashvili’s family and his lawyers, there are over 20 fractures only on the hands of his body. The father of the victim Giorgi Tatunashvili is going to meet with experts to receive the answers on the questions he has.
The body was returned with someone else’s nose, in our opinion. There is no mention in the results about this detail and other important details. I think what I saw on his forehead is a bullet track,” told Giorgi Tatunashvili to the Georgia’s Public Broadcaster’s news service.
A lawyer from NGO Human Rights Centre Tamar Avaliani, who has been monitoring the case from the beginning, says that he was tortured in Tskhinvali prison but to prove this in the court, the final findings of autopsy are needed.
Georgia is drafting a lawsuit against Russia for Tatunashvili’s case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Tatunashvili’s body was returned to his family only 26 days after his death and all inner organs were removed from the body. The de-facto Tskhinvali administration had refused to hand it over before the autopsy made by a Russian bureau.
According to the results of the Russian autopsy that de-facto Tskhinvali officials gave to the International Committee of the Red Cross while transferring the body, Tatunashvili died of acute heart failure caused by myocardial ischemia on February 23.
Tatunashvili and two other Georgian citizens were detained in the occupied Akhalgori area by Russia-controlled border guards on February 22 2018, allegedly for participating in the Russia-Georgia 2008 war.
The body of the 35-year-old Georgian soldier, Archil Tatunashvili, who died in unclear circumstances in the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region on February 23, has been handed over to representatives of the government of Georgia several minutes ago, 26 days after his death.
A lawyer from NGO Human Rights Centre has told the media that Archil Tatunashvili, a Georgian citizen killed by Russian-controlled border guards in February, was returned to his family with his bodily organs missing.
The Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg highlighted the case of the death of Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili in the country’s occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region during his meeting with the Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili in Brussels, Belgium today.
Amnesty International has issued a statement concerning the death of Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili in Georgia’s Russian occupied region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia). Twelve days have passed since the death of Tatunashvili, aged 35, in unclear circumstances in the occupied Tskhinvali region.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia has decided to add the charge of torture to the investigation of Archil Tatunashvili murder case after the results of an autopsy have revealed new evidence.
The Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s office has charged two individuals living in the country’s occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region, for the illegal deprivation of liberty and support in torturing of a Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili.
The Mtskheta District Court in the east Georgia sent two individuals from the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region to pre-trial detention in absentia for illegal deprivation of liberty of a Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili and support in torturing of him.
The whereabouts of the internal organs missing from the tortured and killed Georgian soldier Archil Tatunashvili have been identified. Karasin says that Tatunashvili’s autopsy was conducted in Vladikavkaz and not in Moscow and that the Vladikavkaz laboratory carried out the investigation to establish the reason of the death of the Georgian soldier.
The representatives of the central government of Georgia have demanded the handover of Archil Tatunashvili’s internal organs at today’s Ergneti Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism meeting with the representatives of the de-facto government of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
The Georgian Justice Ministry has submitted a suit against Russia to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. The suit accuses Russia of being responsible for several murders and multiple human rights violations in the occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
Interpol has issued a red notice for two individuals charged with the illegal deprivation of liberty of three Georgian citizens in February earlier this year and the murder of one of them, 35-year-old Archil Tatunashvili.