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MPs grill investigators over Khorava Street murders

25 June 2018 by OC Media

Otar Kakhidze, Sergi Kapanadze and Elene Khoshtaria (Mzia Saganelidze - RFE/RL)

Inves­ti­ga­tors from the Khorava Street murder case faced ques­tion­ing from MPs on Monday, into alleged failures by the inves­ti­ga­tion. A par­lia­men­tary com­mis­sion was set up in the wake of large street protests in Tbilisi, which followed the partial acquittal of the suspects in the case and alle­ga­tions the inves­ti­ga­tion was mis­han­dled. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: children, children's rights, crime, Davit Saralidze, education, georgia, Irakli Shotadze, khorava street murder, Levan Dadunashvili, Malkhaz Machalikashvili, murder, pankisi, police, protest, Saralidze, school, SSG, state security service, tbilisi, temirlan machalikashvili, terrorism, Zaza Saralidze

‘Terrorism’ investigation launched into father of slain Pankisi teen

14 June 2018 by OC Media

Malkhaz Macha­likashvili (Mari Nikuradze/OC Media)

Georgia’s State Security Service (SSG) has launched an inves­ti­ga­tion into Malkhaz Macha­likashvili, the father of Temirlan Macha­likashvili, a 19-year-old boy killed by security forces in Pankisi in December, after he said he ‘and several hundred others’ had planned to blow them­selves up at the SSG offices but changed their minds. Macha­likashvili later explained his speech was merely an emotional speech, insisting he would do no harm to Georgian people.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Malkhaz Machalikashvili, pankisi, protest, SSG, state security service, temirlan machalikashvili, terrorism

The last battle of ‘one-handed Akhmed’

29 January 2018 by Dosh

The 22 November special operation in Tbilisi (/Dosh)

On 22 November, in a special operation in Tbilisi, Georgian special services liq­ui­dat­ed an armed group which included Akhmed Chatayev, also known as ‘one-handed Akhmed’. Chatayev was con­sid­ered one of the leaders of the Islamic State. During the battle with Georgian special services he refused to disarm, and committed suicide by det­o­nat­ing a grenade. This is, perhaps, every­thing that is known from official sources about the operation in the Georgian capital, which lasted for almost a day.

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Filed Under: Conflict, Top Tagged With: Akhmed Chatayev, chechnya, counterterrorism operation, georgia, isani, pankisi, SSG, state security service, tbilisi, terrorism

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