Georgian PM: all details behind the death of Georgian man in occupied Abkhazia will be clarified

Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze says that all international organisations have been involved and the government will clarify all details and conditions surrounding the death of 29-year-old Georgian man Irakli Kvaratskhelia, who was found hung in an interrogation room in Georgia’s occupied Abkhazia region on March 10.

A huge tragedy took place last week, one more Georgian young man was found dead on our occupied territory. I want to send my condolences to the family and say that we will clarify all details behind the death,” Bakhtadze stated in a Facebook live address late yesterday.

The de facto authorities say that the man was detained on March 10 for “illegally crossing the border,” and was found hung in an interrogation room where he had been left to write an explanatory note.

Several Georgian media outlets cited locals saying that Kvaratskhelia had a verbal dispute with the occupying forces who then beat him which led to his death – then his suicide was staged.  

However, the case has no witnesses so far as to how the man died.

A post-mortem examination was carried out in Tbilisi on March 13, when the body was handed over to the members of the central government of Georgia.

Official results of the autopsy have not been made public so far.

Kvaratskhelia was buried in Senaki, western Georgia, last week.