Police detain 4 for kidnapping girl in Gardabani, southeast Georgia
The crime is punishable by seven to 10 years in prison. Photo: screenshot from the video of MIA.
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Georgian law enforcers have detained four individuals for kidnapping a girl in Georgia’s southeastern Gardabani municipality.
Police found that one of the detainees with the assistance of his mother and his mother’s two close relatives kidnapped a girl identified only as S.B. (born in 2005) with the purpose of forced marriage.
The crime is punishable by seven to 10 years in prison.
The Georgian Interior Ministry launched investigations into 175 cases of early marriages in 2019, just five cases less than in 2018.
The Georgian Interior Ministry reports that they launched investigations into 180 cases of early marriage last year, adding that law enforces were informed regarding the incidents only several months after they took place on average.
Georgia’s Public Defender is calling for a law to ban young teenage girls from falling victim to early marriage and offer more protection and assistance to those in need.
The old fashioned norm of arranged or forced marriages could soon become a illegal if changes to Georgian law are approved, resulting in a maximum penalty of four years imprisonment.
Georgian police have detained a former officer for taking two people hostage in Kaspi Municipality in Georgia’s Shida Kartli region. The individual, identified only as G.M. and born in 1993, had quit his post back in 2018.
Georgia’s public security management centre and the United Nations population fund on Wednesday signed an agreement on joint efforts to prevent early marriages and ensuring information campaigns over the societal problem, the country’s interior ministry said.
Georgian law enforcers have arrested two individuals for kidnapping a minor in eastern Georgia’s Marneuli municipality, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Thursday.
Georgian law enforcers have arrested four individuals for kidnapping a minor in Georgia’s capital city of Tbilisi, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Sunday.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Thursday pledged further legal amendments to respond to the early marriage problem across the country following the murder of a 14-year-old kidnapped and forced into a marriage earlier this month in eastern Georgia.