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Thursday, 11 August 2005
SOUTH OSSETIA ASKS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TO INTERVENE FOR DETAINEES IN GEORGIA
By empty (8/11/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The representative for human rights representatives to the president of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia has asked for UN, OSCE, and nongovernmental groups\' assistance to determine the local whereabouts of 15 men from South Ossetia who are being held in Georgian prisons. David Sanakoev made the request in a letter to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Novak, to Roy Reeve, head of the OSCE office in Tbilisi, and to Amnesty International and the International Committee of the Red Cross. The detainees reportedly include two men suspected of involvement in the 1 February car bombing in Gori that killed three people.
The representative for human rights representatives to the president of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia has asked for UN, OSCE, and nongovernmental groups\' assistance to determine the local whereabouts of 15 men from South Ossetia who are being held in Georgian prisons. David Sanakoev made the request in a letter to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Novak, to Roy Reeve, head of the OSCE office in Tbilisi, and to Amnesty International and the International Committee of the Red Cross. The detainees reportedly include two men suspected of involvement in the 1 February car bombing in Gori that killed three people. Also on 11 August, South Ossetian Foreign Minister Murad Djioev similarly asked Vladimir Chkhikvishvili, Russia\'s ambassador in Tbilisi, to try to secure the release of the two bombing suspects. (Caucasus Press)