TBILISI, August 7 – Roman Shamatava, a former senior security official in Georgia’s now-disbanded Constitutional Security Department (CSD) – locally known as “Kudi” – has been released from prison after completing a 12-year sentence for murder. Shamatava had been convicted in connection with the 2008 disappearances and killings of two men: Davit Tsindeliani, a forest … Read more
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Netherlands on Tuesday extradited a former Georgian intelligence official known as ‘Mastera’.
Giorgi Dgebuadze, a former official of the Constitutional Security Council (Kudi), was transferred by the request of Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A few days before the local elections, the Interior Ministry in Georgia has gone public with details of yet one more crime conducted by Saakashvili’s government in which opponents were treated with a brutality reminiscent of Scorsese movies.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The family of a forest ranger who was killed in 2008 demonstrated in Zugdidi Wednesday.
Ranger Davit Tsindeliani is still formally missing, but is believed to have been killed in August 2008, after the war between Russia and Georgia.
His family
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Ministry of Internal Affairs has opened an investigation into the 2008 disappearance and murder of Paata Kardava, an intelligence officer at the Ministry of Defense.
The investigation centers on Roman Shamatava, former head of the Constitutional Security