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Saturday, 25 March 2006
ABKHAZ AUTHORITIES RELEASE DETAINED GEORGIAN FILM-MAKERS
By empty (3/25/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Following talks between Irakli Alasania, President Saakashvili\'s adviser for Abkhazia, and Sergei Bagapsh, president of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia, three Georgians detained by the Abkhaz authorities on suspicion of espionage were handed back on March 25 to representatives of the Tbilisi-based Abkhaz government in exile. The three Georgians, who were arrested while filming churches and other monuments in Abkhazia, were handed over at a bridge over the Inguri River that marks the border between Abkhazia and the rest of Georgia. The three Georgians were arrested on March 4 and remanded to three months\' pre-trial detention.
Following talks between Irakli Alasania, President Saakashvili\'s adviser for Abkhazia, and Sergei Bagapsh, president of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia, three Georgians detained by the Abkhaz authorities on suspicion of espionage were handed back on March 25 to representatives of the Tbilisi-based Abkhaz government in exile. The three Georgians, who were arrested while filming churches and other monuments in Abkhazia, were handed over at a bridge over the Inguri River that marks the border between Abkhazia and the rest of Georgia. The three Georgians were arrested on March 4 and remanded to three months\' pre-trial detention. (Caucasus Press)