Zhalavdi Geriev (to the right) and Bekkhan Gelgoev in the Vnukovo Airport. Moscow, November 2, 2014. Photo by Magomed Tuaev for the "Caucasian Knot"

03 November 2014, 02:43

Two natives of Chechnya deported from Georgia arrive in Moscow

Bekkhan Gelgoev, the head of youth human rights organization "Youth for the Future" and a member of the International Youth Human Rights Movement, and his colleague Zhalavdi Geriev, who were deported on November 2 from Georgia, arrived in Russia by the flight Kutaisi-Moscow. The Georgian party did not specify the reasons for deportation.

The Russia citizens and residents of Chechnya Zhalavdi Geriev and Bekkhan Gelgoev were detained in the Kutaisi Airport on November 2, after their arrival from Budapest. They planned to get from Georgia to Chechnya, where they live, by surface transport across the territory of North Ossetia. However, in the Kutaisi Airport, Geriev and Gelgoev were detained by border guards. Until 7:30 p.m. local time they stayed in the neutral zone of the airport, while claiming a violation of their rights by Georgian border guards.

Gelgoev has noted the deteriorating attitude of the Georgian party to natives of Russia, in particular, to natives of Chechnya and Northern Caucasus.

According to Alexander Peredruk, another member of the International Youth Human Rights Movement, a Georgian border guard characterized the check of the deported rights defenders as "a normal procedure for checking Chechens, and, sometimes, of Ingushes and Daghestanis."

"I told them that this is discrimination, and that Georgia, while claiming democracy, is experiencing problems with this; and, apparently, border guards did not like this statement," said Gelgoev.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

 

Author: Magomed Tuaev Source: CK correspondent

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