S.Ossetia Releases Georgian Man

Temur Goginashvili was released by the authorities in breakaway South Ossetia on July 24, four days after his arrest.

Goginashvili was arrested, according to the South Ossetian side, on suspicion of murder, allegedly committed during the armed conflict in the region in the early 1990s. 

“This man had nothing to do with those events in the early 90s,” Mamuka Kurashvili, an official from the Georgian Defense Ministry in charge of overseeing peacekeeping operations, said after Goginashvili was released. “They [the South Ossetian side] are constantly trying to fuel tensions, and this detention was part of this attempt.”