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Some of Chechens Were Given Refugee Status

August 18, 2005

Some of Chechens Were Given Refugee Status

Tbilisi.17.08.05. Media News. Georgia’s Public Defender Sozar Subari arrived in Duisi (a village in the Pankisi Gorge) and distributed cards providing for a refugee status to a number of Chechens living there.

The fact is that the Public Defender’s Office studied and discussed the issue of restoration of refugee status for certain Chechens on the basis of a number of appeals. The Office of the Ombudsman found out that forty of them had their status cancelled illegally.

The Ministry of Refugees and Placement, which made a census of refugees last year, did not study the cases accurately enough and did not confirm the reasons underpinning the decision on refusal – the Ombudsman states.
As far as the Public Defender is involved in the case, the Ministry restored their status of refugee.

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