Occupants arrest one man near Khurvaleti village
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Russian occupants have arrested Otar Samniashvili near Khurvaleti village for ‘illegally crossing the border’.
The State Security Service is investigating the case.
The EU Monitoring Mission has been informed and the hot line enacted to gather information about the location of the illegally detained individual.
Kidnapping is a common crime in the Russian occupied region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
De-facto Tskhinvali calls the occupation line between the region and the rest of Georgia "the state border” and treats any cases of line crossing by locals as cases of "illegal border crossings”, even though the line is not well demarcated in some areas.
Generally, detained Georgian citizens are released after their relatives pay a ransom.
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High school student from village Chvirnisi located near the occupation line of Tskhinvali has been arrested by the so called border guards.
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.
Two Georgian citizens Ioseb Gundiashvili, 40, and David Gerkeuli, 30, were detained late yesterday by Russia-controlled border guards near Adzvi village in Gori municipality, the State Security Service of Georgia has confirmed today.
Russian occupants have released a Georgian citizen Otar Samniashvili who was illegally detained yesterday in the village of Khurvaleti, near the occupation line with breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region for “illegally crossing the border.”
Georgian officials on Tuesday visited locals of central Georgia's Khurvaleti village who have found their yards split by new barbed wire installations erected by Russian occupying forces near the Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
The Georgian State Security Service and the European Union Monitoring Mission to Georgia (EUMM) have dismissed reports by a Facebook user that occupying forces have entered the Tbilisi-administered territory of the Khurvaleti village at the occupation line between Georgia’s breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region and the rest of Georgia and are now standing in the yards of locals.