APPLYING TO OMBUDSMAN OF GEORGIA WITH REQUEST TO ASSIST TO ARMENIANS ARRESTED IN GEORGIA
By Aghavni Harutyunian

AZG Armenian Daily
28/09/2006

We have already informed the readers of our newspaper about the arrests
of some of the Armenian citizens. In particular, the Georgian officials
have arrested Armenian citizens who visited Abkhazia or South Ossetia,
accusing them of illegally passing the state border of Georgia. They
Georgian officials also imposed the arrested Armenian citizens with
huge penalties. On grounds of a number of appeals and publications
in the printed press, RA Ombudsman Armen Haroutiunian sent a letter
to his Georgian colleague Sozar Soubari with the request to spare no
efforts for rendering any available legal defense and assistance to
the Armenian citizens.

It’s worth mentioning that in Tbilisi in an unofficial conversation
with "Azg," Sozar Soubari stated when representing his position that
in the given case the abovementioned Armenian citizens have violated
the legislation of Georgia. As for excluding visits to Abkhazia or
South Osetia in the given case, Mr.

Soubari stated that the measures applied were quite normal and legal,
as in the criminal forces rule Abkhazia and Tskhinvali.