EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) responds to the fact of suspension prosecution against person accused of killing Giga Otkhozoria.
The EUMM’s statement reads “After one full year of intensive work and the handover of investigation materials at the IPRM meetings, this failure to bring justice was a great disappointment.”
Rashid Kandjioghli, who stands accused of killing Georgian citizen Giga Otkhozoria in Khurcha on May 19, 2016, is no longer in the pretrial detention.
At the meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism in Gali, representatives of the Abkhazian de-facto government informed the representatives of the State Security Service of Georgia that the prosecution was suspended.
Discussions also covered recent cases of detentions at the Administrative Boundary Line (ABL), and ongoing borderisation which, in some cases, prevents access to agricultural land for the locals.
The closure of two controlled crossing points in March of this year, and its impact for local residents, was also discussed.
The next meeting of the Gali IPRM is scheduled for 28 June, 2017.