State Representative says punishing individuals responsible for killing Georgian national in occupied territory “state’s priority”
He stressed the importance of conducting a “thorough investigation” of the incident, after another Georgian citizen Levan Dotiashvili, who had been illegally detained by the Russian-controlled occupation forces in the same incident, was released on Thursday. Photo via IPN
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Mikheil Shakulashvili, the State Representative in the central Shida Kartli region, on Saturday said identifying and punishing individuals responsible for the killing of a Georgian citizen Tamaz Ginturi during an attempt of illegal arrest by occupation forces on Monday, was a “priority of the state”.
He stressed the importance of conducting a “thorough investigation” of the incident, after another Georgian citizen Levan Dotiashvili, who had been illegally detained by the Russian-controlled occupation forces in the same incident, was released on Thursday.
The State representative, along with other politicians and clergy, attended the funeral of Ginturi, who was buried with military honours.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs on Monday launched an investigation on both violations in the incident, while the “immediate release” of Dotiashvili and punishment of individuals responsible for the killing of Ginturi was demanded by the Georgian side later that day in a meeting with de facto authorities of the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and the country’s officials on Monday also called on the international community to make an “appropriate assessment and response” on the killing and detention of Georgian citizens by occupation forces.
A Georgian citizen Levan Dotiashvili illegally detained by the Russian-controlled occupation forces in central Georgia was released on Thursday, following an incident which saw the killing of the country’s national Tamaz Ginturi during an attempt of illegal arrest by occupation forces on Monday.
Levan Dotiashvili, a Georgian citizen who was released on Thursday after being illegally detained by the Russian-controlled occupation forces in central Georgia following an incident that led to the killing of Tamaz Ginturi, another national of the country, on Friday recounted details of the incident.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Wednesday said his Government had taken “all possible steps” following the killing of a Georgian national by Russian occupying forces near a village adjacent to central Georgia’s occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region on Monday.
Irakli Antadze, the Deputy Head of the Analytical Department of the Georgian State Security Service, on Monday said the country’s authorities had demanded “immediate release” of a Georgian citizen illegally detained by occupation forces on Monday, and punishment of individuals responsible for the killing of another national of the country in the same incident, in a meeting with de facto authorities of the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
A Georgian citizen illegally detained by the Russian-controlled occupation forces in central Georgia in May was released on Wednesday, the State Security Service said.