The Tskhinvali occupation regime has released Georgian citizen Giorgi Mosiashvili, 37, who was detained in autumn 2023 and had remained in unlawful detention since then.
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According to the Georgian State Security Service, "The EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) hotline mechanism and all other relevant measures from the central government were used" to secure Giorgi Mosiashvili's release.
The State Security Committee (KGB) of the so-called South Ossetian Republic also released a statement. According to them, at the end of 2023, Giorgi Mosiashvili, a resident of the village of Perevi in Sachkhere Municipality, was convicted by the Java Court for illegal border crossing and sentenced to prison.
The de facto government claims that on October 30, 2023, Mosiashvili intentionally crossed the "state border" near Sinaguri and "extracted water biological resources (fished)."
"On July 2, due to the expiration of his sentence, Mosiashvili was released and handed over to the Georgian side in accordance with the established procedure," stated the so-called State Security Committee.
Nine Georgian citizens remain in unlawful imprisonment in occupied Tskhinvali.
