Occupants release illegally detained Georgian teenager
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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.
The teenager was released after his family paid a fine amounting to 2,000 Russian rubles (31 USD).
The Russia-controlled border guards kidnap Georgian citizens quite often and in most cases release them after paying a fine.
The Georgian occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali were recognised as independent states by Russia after the Russia-Georgia 2008 war.
Priest and shepherd detained in Tskhinvali region (South Ossetia)
Ioane Okhanashvili is the pastor of Saint Georgia’s Church in the village Dirbi, located a few kilometres away from the South Ossetian ABL.
The news about the other detention came from the village of Tsitelubani. The shepherd Teimuraz Dudashvili was taken by force to Tskhinvali by Russian border guards, according to his neighbours.
The EU monitoring mission has been informed about the incident and the hot line is enacted, the State Security Service said 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.
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.
Georgian citizen Maia Otinashvili, 37, has been illegally detained by Russian-backed so called border guards in the village of Khurvaleti, Gori municipality, near the occupation line of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).