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Family demand parliamentary commission one year after teen killed in Georgia’s Pankisi

by OC Media

•4 min read

The Family of Temirlan Machalikashvili, who was shot dead by Georgian security forces last December, have held a silent rally in front of Tbilisi’s parliament building demanding parliament look into the teenager’s death. The family and their supporters gathered on 26 December demanding a parliamentary investigatory commission be set up. Nineteen-year-old Machalikashvili, an ethnic Kist from Georgia’s Pankisi Valley, was shot in the head while in bed on 26 December 2017 as Georgian securit

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Questions in Pankisi, after Georgian Security Services kill teen

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•6 min read

As the number of arrests in the wake of November’s deadly counterterror siege grows, the killing by security forces of a 19-year-old in Pankisi has caused controversy. A 19-year-old terror suspect has died 15 days after being shot in the head, during a special operation in Georgia’s Pankisi Valley. Temirlan Machalikashvili, an ethnic Kist, was fatally wounded in his house on 26 December as Georgian security forces conducted a counterterror sweep. While the State Security Service of Geor