Head of South Ossetia's Border Service Calls Border Situation Tensive

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Four violators have been detained on the border between Georgia and South Ossetia recently, one of them is under arrest.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, on August 20, a resident of Georgia was detained near the village of Artsev.

The head of the KGB border service of South Ossetia, Romeo Khugaev, called the situation on the border of the republic tense, the state information agency "Res" wrote on September 1.

According to him, two violators of the state border regime and two violators of the border regime. Of the first violators, a criminal case was opened against one, and a preventive measure in the form of two months of imprisonment was chosen for him. Khugaev did not report on the others. However, he also added that the two previously detained were expelled from the republic.

On June 7, the Public Defender of Georgia published a report on the situation in the territory of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. According to the ombudsman, in 2024, 70 people were detained on the demarcation line , 36 of them on the border with South Ossetia, 34 on the border with Abkhazia, including two women and two minors. As a rule, those detained are charged with illegally crossing the state border. By the end of 2024, at least 14 people were in custody in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, who, according to the Ombudsman's Office, report harsh conditions.

Restrictions on crossing the border between Georgia and Abkhazia and South Ossetia violate the rights of residents of border villages, who are unable to farm and risk being detained for crossing the border, according to a report by the human rights organization Amnesty International "Behind the Barbed Wire. Human Rights Violations as a Result of "Borderization" in Georgia".

Georgia considers Abkhazia and South Ossetia to be territories occupied by Russia after Russia intervened in the armed conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia on August 8, 2008, and then recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. After this, the Georgian parliament voted to sever diplomatic relations with Russia, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report on the "Five-Day War".

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