They are going to pay for firewood
2009-10-30 15:50 "The detainees will be treated according to the laws of the Republic of South Ossetia. On my part, I may only hope that they will not be punished as severely as the Georgian authorities punish the arrested Ossetians", - Deputy South-Ossetian President's Authorized Envoy for post-conflict settlement Merab Chigoev told IA Res.According to him, Zaurbeg Khestanov and Tajmuraz Amzoev have been kept under arrest in Georgia for more that two months; they are facing either a long-term imprisonment, or a large fine. They are the citizens of Russia incriminated in illegal intrusion into the Georgian territory through the Russian-South-Ossetian border, which is prohibited by the Georgian law "Concerning occupied territories".
Yesterday, it also became known about the detention of another five citizens of Georgia and South Ossetia for illegal border crossing. This time, it was the villagers of the Karelskiy region that fell prisoners; the said that they had been invited to work in the Znaurskiy region of the republic. There cases will be considered by the court of Tskhinval.
This is not the only detention of Georgians who considered South Ossetia to be their own territory and made themselves at home in its forests. As reported by Head of Administration of the Leningorskiy region Alan Dzhussoev, another six people detained earlier are on remand in Tskhinval. "The technical means used for illegal wood-felling were confiscated by the law-enforcement authorities of the region", - he underlined.
In the opinion of Dzhussoev, the Georgians' possessiveness in respect of the resources of South Ossetia should be suppressed by rigid measures like this. "Such trespassers should be made liable both criminally and administratively. People should be punished for committing illegal actions and they should be taught order in general", - he underlined in his interview to IA Res.
Perhaps, Tbilisi would not have made so much noise about the incident if there had been fewer detainees on Sunday. Still, 16 people were put in jail, a 14-year-old youth being among them.
The Georgian authorities had to put in a word for them. Having made no response to a note from Russia demanding that the detained Russian citizens Vladimir Vakhania and Pavel Bliadze should be released on Friday, the Georgian MFA sent a protest note to Moscow.
The document containing the demand to free the citizens of the country was delivered through the Swiss Embassy, where there is a Russian department, so long as the Russian-Georgian diplomatic relations were suspended last August.
Head of the MFA of Great Britain David Miliband also made a stand for these people that were referred to by the Georgian party as "abducted".
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