EU Ambassador hopes on finding humanitarian solution to Zaza Gakheladze’s case

EU Ambassador to Georgia Carl Hartzell echoed the case of Georgian citizen Zaza Gakheladze unlawfully imprisoned by the occupied Tskhinvali regime.

“We are following this case very closely. We are trying to use our instrument to facilitate what we believe and what we are hoping for by finding a humanitarian solution to this situation. We will continue to urge all sides to use the good offices of the EU Monitoring Mission, the hotline of the IPRM group that has been employed when it comes to this dialogue. It is very important that we are seeing the progress made here,” EU Ambassador said.

Georgian citizen Zaza Gakheladze has been sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison by the de facto Supreme Court of the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region. Zaza Gakheladze, a local of the Kvemo Chala village, Kaspi municipality, was detained and wounded in his leg at Skhvilo Fortress on July 11. The occupation regime charged Gakheladze for an attempt to cross the so-called border illegally and for the attempted murder of a Russian soldier.