UNM’s Baramidze Detained on ‘Treason’ Charges Over Abkhazia War Remarks

Giorgi Baramidze, a member of the opposition United National Movement (UNM) and former Interior and Defense Minister, was detained at his apartment in Tbilisi on September 11 on “high treason” charges over remarks about Georgians “shooting” Abkhaz prisoners of war during the 1992-1993 armed conflict in Abkhazia. The arrest comes nearly a month after the …