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U.S. Embassy Calls on Occupied Tskhinvali, Russia to ‘Immediately Release Doctor Gaprindashvili’
The U.S. in Georgia issued a statement in the late evening of Friday, December 20, in response to occupied Tskhinvali's decision to sentence Tbilisi-based doctor Vazha Gaprindashvili to prison for 21 months. "The government of the United States does not recognize as legitimate the de facto authorities in the occupied region," the U.S. Embassy noted, …