UPDATED: Georgian citizen kidnapped by occupants released
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Georgian citizen Elizbar Mestumrishvili, 77, who was detained by Russian-controlled border guards near the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) yesterday in the village Jariasheni of Gori municipality, has been released Georgia’s State Security Service has confirmed.
Earlier, locals said the illegally detained individual, who was herding cattle on territory controlled by Georgia, had been taken to Tskhinvali.
The report by Georgia’s State Security Service says that 126 Georgian citizens were illegally detained by Russia-controlled border guards last year at the Georgia-breakaway Tskhinvali occupation line and 52 others at the Georgia-occupied Abkhazia so-called boundary line.
In most cases detainees are released after paying a fine for which amounts to about $30.
A Georgian citizen has been detained near the occupation line between Georgia and its Russian occupied region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) for allegedly crossing the so-called border. Genadi Bestaev, 50, who lives in Zardiantkari village of Gori region near Tskhinvali now faces two months in prison.
A Georgian citizen has been released from illegal detention near the occupation line separating the Russian occupied region of Abkhazia from the rest of Georgia. Paata Rogava and his father Archil are from the conflict-affected village of Rike in Zugdidi municipality, close to the occupation line.
A Georgian citizen illegally sentenced to 20 years in prison by an unrecognised court in Georgia's Russian-occupied Abkhazia region has been released today. Giorgi Lukava was handed over to the Georgian authorities earlier today at the Enguri Bridge.
The State Minister of Georgia for Reconciliation and Civic Equality, Ketevan Tsikhelashvili, met with the wife of a Georgian man imprisoned in an Abkhazian prison facility last night.
Akaki Misireli kidnapped by so called border guards near the administrative boundary line in Gori municipality is currently in Tskhinvali’s police department.
The de facto leadership of Georgia’s eastern occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region has released a Georgian citizen Temur Dudashvili, who was illegally detained by the Russia-controlled so-called border guards yesterday.
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).
Russian-controlled occupation forces have abducted three Georgian citizens in the Kaspi municipality of Georgia and transported them to Tskhinvali prison for “illegally crossing the border.” Locals say that the occupation forces initially detained four individuals. However, they released 15-year-old Avtandil Gamkhitashvili shortly after detaining him.