Occupants detain Georgian citizen near breakaway Tskhinvali
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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.
Darbaidze was detained for "illegally crossing the border” and is now in a Tskhinvali detention facility, his family says.
The family stated that Darbaidze was abducted yesterday evening from the village of Kveshi, when he was herding cattle in his own garden.
The territory is controlled by Georgia. After the abduction Sergo phoned me and told me that he was in Tskhinvali detention facility,” Sergo Darbaidze’s son, Aleksi Darbaidze, told the media.
Gori municipality representatives arrived in the village and stated that the European Union Monitoring Mission and all the relevant state agencies have been informed about the detention.
Two people kidnapped near the occupation line between Georgia and its Russian-occupied region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) have been released today. As one of the detainees Eldar Gundishvili said, he was detained while he was grazing his cattle in his own yard.
An elderly man from the Kaspi district is the latest Georgian citizen to be detained by Russian soldiers at the so-called occupation line near Georgia’s breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
The United States calls for an immediate halt to the ongoing illegal detentions of Georgian citizens by de facto and Russian authorities along the administrative boundary lines with the Russian-occupied territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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.
The EU monitoring mission has been informed about the incident and the hot line is enacted, the State Security Service said today.
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 Russia-controlled border guards have released a Georgian citizen Paata Arakelov, who was abducted for crossing of so-called border with the Georgian occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region on July 6.