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| Tsiskara Tokhosashvili sentenced to 12 years in prison | ||
| 2023-08-17 | ||
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] A native of the Pankisi Gorge, Tsiskara Tokhosashvili,
On August 15, the Tbilisi City Court sentenced Tsiskara Tokhosashvili to 12 years in prison, finding him guilty of involvement in the Islamic State. According to the court, Tokhosashvili participated in the armed actions of the Islamic State under the pseudonym Emir Isa. The hearing in the classified case lasted eight months. Tokhosashvili denies almost all the accusations, but confirms that he has been to Syria. The Tokhosashvili brothers are from the village of Omalo in the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia, where ethnic Chechens-Kists live, Rustavi-2 writes. Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that Tokhosashvili's brother Caesar was detained by the Security Service of Ukraine in Kiev in 2019 . According to the State Security Service of Georgia, Caesar Tokhosashvili, under the pseudonym Al Bara Shishani, fought in Syria on the side of the IS, was the deputy of the IS Emir Umar ash-Shishani and was wanted by Interpol. The prefix "ash-Shishani" in the names of immigrants from Pankisi fighting in Syria indicates their origin (Chechens-Kists), in Arabic it means "Chechen", according to the material of the "Caucasian Knot" "Natives of the Caucasus in the ranks of ISIS (ISIS )". The "Personalities" section of the "Caucasian Knot" also contains a biographical information about Tarkhan Batirashvili (Abu Umar ash-Shishani), and the "Reference" section contains an article about the Kists. | ||
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