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Occupants detain Georgian citizen

Since 2009 more than 2,000 Georgian citizens have been kidnapped at the Administrative Boundary Line near Georgia’s occupied territories. Photo by N. Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

Agenda.ge, 23 Jun 2018 - 13:46, Tbilisi,Georgia

Giorgi Gorgisheli, 22, from the village of Mereti in Gori municipality has been detained by occupants.

The so called ‘border guards’ have arrested the Georgian citizen for so called ‘illegal border crossing’ on June 20, according to the de-facto state security committee released today.

The occupied Tskhinvali District Court has sentenced Gorgisheli to two-month pretrial detention "as a preventive measure”.

Russian-occupied Tskhinvali calls the occupation line between Tskhinvali region and the rest of Georgia "the state border” and treats any cases of line crossing by locals as cases of "illegal border crossing” even though the line is not well differentiated in some areas.

The whole international community except Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Nauru and Syria says that Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions are integral, historic parts of Georgia.

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Russia-controlled border guards have detained two Georgian citizens today near the Bershueti village of Gori municipality at a church on territory which is administered by Tbilisi.

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High school student from village Chvirnisi located near the occupation line of Tskhinvali has been arrested by the so called border guards.

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Negotiations are underway to secure the release of a Georgian citizen who was detained for illegally crossing the border by Russian border guards at the Dagestan section of the Russia-Georgia border on June 13, reports the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs.