Vazha Gaprindashvili.
Medical professionals across Georgia have held a five-minute silence in protest over the detention in South Ossetia of Georgian doctor Vazha Gaprindashvili. [Read more…]
Monitors from the EUMM on patrol. Official picture.
A group of unarmed civilian monitors from the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) was briefly detained by armed South Ossetian Security forces, the organisation reported on Thursday. [Read more…]
A screenshot of the footage leaked online.
Footage allegedly filmed in a South Ossetian detention centre showing prisoners being beaten by security forces has been leaked online, leading to calls for the resignation of the interior and justice ministers. [Read more…]
Photo: RES
South Ossetian prisoners who were on hunger strike in Tskhinvali last Friday were severely beaten, local media report. [Read more…]
The Georgian State Security Service presented the drone to journalists. (Photo: Imedi)
Georgian vigilante group Power in Unity has claimed responsibility for bringing down an unarmed South Ossetian drone. South Ossetian authorities reacted angrily to the downing, accusing the Georgian police of shooting down the drone themselves. [Read more…]
South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov during a visit to Tsnelisi on 28 August. (Photo: Yuzhnaya Osetiya)
South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov has announced the construction of a checkpoint in the village of Tsnelisi (Uista) after unsuccessful negotiations with the Georgian government to remove their own checkpoint in the area. [Read more…]
The 95th Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism meeting ended prematurely. (Photo: EUMM)
A heated meeting between Georgian and South Ossetian officials has ended without results after Georgian police set up a new police checkpoint near the border. The meeting came at a time of increased tension following the erection by Russian troops of new fences along the disputed South Ossetian border. [Read more…]
‘When they started setting houses on fire, and burned down my cousins’ houses, we were forced to run away. We were afraid that they would burn us all. So we ran.’
The new fence near Gugutiantkari. (Photo: Embassy of Ukraine to Georgia / Facebook)
The property and land of two Georgian families have been cut off from Georgian government-controlled territory in the village of Gugutiantkari, near South Ossetia, after Russian border guards set up new fences on 7 August. [Read more…]
Gali town centre (Nino Gogua /OC Media)
University applicants living in Abkhazia who were unable to take their entrance exams after the closure of the Enguri (Ingur) crossing will be admitted to without exams. [Read more…]
