Citizens of Iran, Morocco, Algeria detained for illegally crossing state border
The crime is punishable by four to five years in prison. Photo: Georgian Interior Ministry press office
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Georgian police detained two citizens of Iran, one citizen of Marocco and one citizen of Algeria for illegally crossing the state border today.
The four individuals were detained while they attempted to enter the country illegally from Turkey.
The crime is punishable by four to five years in prison.
The occupying forces in the two Russia-controlled Georgian regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) have detained 327 Georgian citizens for “illegally crossing the border” between 2017 and 2019, the Georgian State Security Service says. The agency reports that 242 of 327 were detained for “illegally crossing the border” between Georgia and its eastern occupied Tskhinvali region.
The seven detainees who are the citizens of Bangladesh, India and Yemen, have illegally crossed the Armenian-Georgian state border, avoiding the border control procedures.
De facto authorities of Georgia’s Russian-controlled Tskhinvali region say that the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) monitors were held yesterday as they “illegally crossed the border in the village of Tsnelisi (Kareli Municipality, under the Russian control),” adding that the action by the EUMM was “provocative.”
Two citizens of Cameroon have been detained by the border police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia for trying to cross the country’s border near Georgia’s Black Sea resort town of Batumi, yesterday.
Georgian police have detained three Indian citizens for illegally crossing the state border, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia (MIA).
Georgian police have detained one citizen of the Republic of Ghana and one citizen of Congo Republic for attempting to cross the state border of Georgia illegally.
