Police Tight-Lipped on Two ‘Spies’ Case

Two citizens of Georgia, arrested and charged with espionage and setting up of an illegal armed group, will spend at least two months in pre-trial detention pending investigation, according to the Georgian Interior Ministry.

Grigol Minasyan and Sarkis Akopjanyan were arrested on January 22; the Interior Ministry has declined since then to reveal details of the case, including in favor of which country they were allegedly spying.

Shota Khizanishvili, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, told Civil.Ge on January 30, that he was not authorized to discuss details because of the ongoing investigation.

According to the Armenian and Russian media reports, the two men, who were arrested in Akhaltsikhe, a town in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region, are affiliated with Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun).

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