Chief Prosecutor offers meeting to family of recently deceased terrorism suspect
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Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor Irakli Shotadze has offered the family of recently deceased terrorism suspect Temirlan Machalikashvili to meet in Tbilisi, at Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office headquarters.
Shotadze is ready to meet with the deceased suspect’s family with the presence of investigators who are looking into the question of whether or not excessive use of force was applied during his detention on December 26, 2017 as the result of a raid on Georgia’s Muslim-populated region of Pankisi Gorge.
The Chief Prosecutor’s Office is ready to inform the family about the current stage of the investigation, as the family claims Machalikashvili was mistakenly shot by a special unit serviceman during the operation.
Malkhaz Machalikashvili, father of Temirlan Machalikashvili, who died two weeks after being shot in the head, had demanded the meeting with the chief prosecutor in order to learn about the evidence against his son.
Malkhaz Machalikashvili claims his son had no links with the Islamic State terrorist Ahmed Chatayev, who blew himself up in Tbilisi during the November 22 counter-terrorism operation on the outskirts of Tbilisi.
- The Prosecutor’s Office released a video shortly after the Pankisi raid which depicts Machalikashvili with Chatayev-affiliated individuals.
- The family says the video was allegedly recorded two years ago, when Chatayev allies freely walked in Tbilisi and Pankisi.
- The December 26 raid in Pankisi saw four people detained for supporting terrorism and Machalikashvili severely wounded in the head.
- The 19-year-old man died prior to being transported to Turkey for better treatment.
19-year-old Temirlan Machalikashvili, who was accused of supporting terrorists, died early today at a hospital in capital Tbilisi, after about two weeks of being in a coma.
The suspected terrorists killed in the Tbilisi counter-terrorist operation on November 22 were planning to attack diplomatic missions in Georgia and Turkey, says the Georgian State Security Service. The Service revealed the results of the ongoing investigation this afternoon.
Georgia’s State Security Service (SSS) has confirmed that one of the three killed suspects in the Tbilisi counter-terrorist operation on November 22 is an Islamic State-linked, Russia citizen of Chechen origin, Ahmed Chataev. SSS stated that two suspects were killed by Georgian law enforcers, while "Chataev exploded himself.”
One suspected terrorist has been arrested and three killed during today’s anti-terrorist operation on Gabriel Salosi Street in Tbilisi, the State Security Service announced a short time ago. Nino Giorgobiani, press speaker of the State Security Service, described in a detailed statement how the operation was conducted and how many people were arrested.
Father of deceased terror suspect Temirlan Machalikashvili, Malkhaz Machalikashvili, attempted to kill the former deputy head of Georgia’s State Security Service (SSS) Ioseb Gogashvili, the State Security Service of Georgia announced at a special briefing earlier today.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has launched a discussion on the high profile case of terrorism suspect Temirlan Machalikashvili, who received a fatal injury during an anti-terrorist raid in Georgia’s Muslim-populated Pankisi Gorge back in 2017.
The Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC), an organisation working on human rights issues, has demanded a crime scene reenactment and re-interrogation of special unit officers in the high-profile Temirlan Machalikashvili case, a 19-year-old who received a deadly wound during an anti-terrorist raid in Georgia’s Muslim-populated Pankisi Gorge back in 2017.