Occupants detain Georgian woman near occupation line
Villagers say Maia Otinashvili was detained by the armed individuals near the administrative boundary line.
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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).
Villagers say that Otinashvili was near the administrative boundary line when the armed individuals detained her and transported in the direction of occupied Tskhinvali.
It is not always obvious where the occupation line is demarcated as Russian occupation forces keep changing the so-called borders which is informally referred to as a "creeping occupation”.
The EU Monitoring Mission has been informed about the detention and the hotline enacted to gather information about the location of the kidnapped woman.
Kidnapping is a common crime in the Russian occupied region of Tskhinvali, though many cases go unreported because families prefer to pay the ransom with the help of a go-between in order to keep their kidnapped relatives safe.
The situation is similar in Georgia’s other Russian-occupied region of Abkhazia.
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37-year-old Georgian citizen Maia Otinashvili who was detained by Russia-controlled forces in the Tbilisi-administered Khurvaleti village near the occupation line on 29 September has been sentenced to two-month pre-trial detention in the occupied Tskhinvali region. The de facto leadership of Georgia’s eastern breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region claims that Otinashvili was aiding people “illegally cross the border” between Georgia and Tskhinvali and that she accepted payment for the service.
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