Tbilisi Says Local Man ‘Physically Assaulted by Occupying Troops’ at S.Ossetia Administrative Border

A local Georgian citizen was beaten by the Russian troops on July 26 while they were trying to arrest him on the administrative boundary line with breakaway South Ossetia, the Georgian State Security Service said.

It said that the incident occurred close to the village of Kirbali of Gori municipality, southeast of Tskhinvali, when “representatives of the occupying forces were trying to illegally detain a local resident, who was physically assaulted.”

“We strongly condemn this incident, which represents yet another provocation of the occupying forces and which poses threat to peace and stability on the ground,” the Georgian State Security Service said.

Detentions, mainly of local population, along the administrative boundary line for, what Tskhinvali and Russian troops say is, “violation of South Ossetia’s state border”, are not rare; usually detained persons are released few days later after being fined.

Total of 163 people were detained by the Russian border guard troops at the breakaway South Ossetia’s administrative boundary in 2015, according to the Georgian State Security Service.

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