Police detain 3 Indian citizens for illegal border crossing
The crime is punishable by four to five years in prison. Photo: screenshot/video of MIA.
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Georgian police have detained three Indian citizens for illegally crossing the state border, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia (MIA).
The investigation found that the detainees had illegally crossed the Armenian-Georgian state border.
The crime is punishable by four to five years in prison.
An official statement released by the MIA reads that the Georgian Border Police has charged a total of 92 foreign citizens for illegally crossing the border during 2020, out of which 35 were citizens of Turkey, nine Indian citizens, four Iranian citizens, four individuals from Palestine, and one citizen of Morocco.
Georgian law enforcers have detained nine Turkish citizens who entered Georgia illegally, and confiscated four firearms from their temporary residence.
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.
Georgian police detained two citizens of Iran, one citizen of Marocco and one citizen of Algeria for illegally crossing the state border today.
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.
The Tolerance and Diversity Institute of Georgia has released a statement regarding recent restrictions imposed by the government of Georgia for individuals coming from India to Georgia, including students, which sets a 14-day quarantine and allows entry in the country only by charter flight.
