5 citizens detained by State Security Service in 2021 for membership in terrorist organisations
The Service said propaganda efforts of the organisations were being “constantly monitored” by state agencies in cyberspace, with the process leading to expulsion of dozens of foreign citizens from the territory of the country. Photo: State Security Service's Facebook Page.
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Five citizens of Georgia were arrested in 2021 for membership in terrorist organisations, the State Security Service said in its annual report that was released on Monday.
The Service said the arrested individuals had attempted to travel to the Middle East and join ranks of a terrorist organisation, with the intentions prevented in a “timely response” of the state agency.
The information was included in a section of the 2021 report - submitted to the Georgian Parliament on Monday - that dealt with the question of recruitment attempts on the territory of Georgia by terrorist organisations.
The Service said propaganda efforts of the organisations were being “constantly monitored” by state agencies in cyberspace, with the process leading to expulsion of dozens of foreign citizens from the territory of the country.
It also noted “favourable environment” for terrorist recruitment in the Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions of Georgia, due to the lack of the central Government’s control in the areas.
The forces carrying out occupation of central Georgia’s Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region were observed in 130 cases of illegal ‘borderisation’ on the administrative boundary throughout 2021, while nine such incidents noted along the boundary separating the occupied northwestern Abkhazia from the Georgian territory, the annual report of the Georgian State Security Service said.
Activities of foreign special services designed to interfere in the public and political life of Georgia were a challenge for the country in 2021, an annual report of the State Security Service to the Georgian Parliament said.
The Georgian State Security Service (SSS) says that five individuals who were arrested in Georgia’s Muslim-populated Pankisi gorge earlier today were members of terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) and had plans to leave for Syria.
Five individuals have been arrested in Georgia’s Muslim-populated Pankisi gorge, in the eastern Kakheti region of Georgia, on terrorism charges earlier today, the Georgian State Security Service has confirmed.
Hybrid threats and disinformation against Georgia’s Western integration and “additional challenges” created for the country by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were noted by Aleksi Batiashvili, the Deputy Head of the State Security Service of Georgia, in his report on the work of the agency to the Parliament on Friday.
The Georgian state security service on Tuesday said its counterintelligence department had prevented the assassination of an Israeli citizen in the country by a group involving individuals with Pakistani and dual Georgian-Iranian citizenships, who have been arrested.
The Georgian State Security Service on Thursday announced the arrest of a member of the Islamic State terrorist organisation at Tbilisi International Airport by its Counter-Terrorism Centre.
The Georgian State Security Service on Saturday said it, along with competent agencies involved in the national counterterrorism system, had identified the activities of the terrorist organisation Islamic State in various foreign countries and had arrested one foreign citizen in connection with this.