Georgian Justice Minister Kote Kemularia and his deputy, Givi Mikanadze, separately denied on 8 December that there are one or more secret U.S. detention facilities in Georgia. Dmitrii Medoev, who is the permanent representative in Moscow of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia, told regnum.ru in a telephone interview on 7 December that in light of what he termed Tbilisi\'s subservience to the CIA, he is certain that such prisons exist on Georgian territory, and he called on the international community to set about locating them. (RFE/RL)