President Zurabishvili calls on int’l community to react to doctor’s illegal detention in Tskhinvali
President Salome Zurabishvili said that the detention of Dr. Vazha Gaprindashvili while offering emergency help "goes against all internationally recognised human rights". Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili calls on the international community “to react with all possible means” to the detention of a Georgian doctor and traumatologist Vazha Gaprindashvili, who was sentenced to two-month pretrial detention by Russian-controlled occupation forces yesterday.
@antonioguterres @DicarloRosemary @vonderleyen @MiroslavLajcak @MarijaPBuric @csultanoglu @ToivoKlaar @mbachelet @Dunja_Mijatovic
— Salome Zourabichvili (@Zourabichvili_S) November 15, 2019
She also called on US Congressmen Adam Kinzinger and Alex Mooney, who visited the occupation line near Georgia’s Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region last week, “to respond through all possible means to this situation”.
President Zurabishvili said that the detention of the doctor while offering emergency help "goes against all internationally recognised human rights".
@RepKinzinger and @RepAlexMooney visited the occupation line last week. The detention of Dr. Vazha Gaprindashvili while offering emergency help goes against all internationally recognized HRs. I call on the Congressmen to respond through all possible means to this situation.
— Salome Zourabichvili (@Zourabichvili_S) November 15, 2019
Doctor Gaprindashvili was illegally detained near the village of Orchosani [under Russian control] on November 9 and was charged with “deliberately crossing the border" with Georgia’s Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region.
The Georgian media reports that Gaprindashvili was visiting a patient when he was abducted.
Famous Georgian doctor and traumatologist Vazha Gaprindashvili, who was illegally detained by Russian-controlled occupation forces on Saturday, has been sent to two-month pretrial detention, Radio Liberty reports, citing Gaprindashvili’s wife Tamila Lapanashvili. A local media and a de facto security agency of Tskhinvali also read that "Tskhinvali court has ruled against Gaprindashvili" and sent him to pretrial detention.
Famous Georgian doctor and traumatologist Vazha Gaprindashvili, who was illegally detained by Russian-controlled occupation forces on Saturday, has been charged with “deliberately crossing the border” by de facto Tskhinvali, while three other Georgian citizens illegally detained between November 9 and 11 have been released.
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The Georgian Foreign Ministry announced yesterday they are doing their best to ensure the safe return of Vazha Gaprindashvili, a doctor who was recently sentenced to two-month pretrial detention by de facto Tskhinvali authorities. The ministry said that the detention of a well-known Georgian doctor and traumatologist points at “alarming human rights situation” in the Russian-occupied Georgian regions.
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Georgia’s permanent representative to the United Nations Kakha Imnadze has informed the United Nations Security Council about the human rights violations in the Russian-occupied regions of Georgia, stressing that the Georgian side demands the release of illegally detained doctor Vazha Gaprindashvili “at once”.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has again called on the international community to “strengthen their efforts” to ensure “the immediate release” of Georgian doctor Vazha Gaprindashvili from Tskhinvali custody.
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