U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Jim Risch (R-ID), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a joint statement on October 9 expressing concern over the political situation in Georgia following the October 4 local elections.
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Georgia's State Security Service (SSSG) announced on October 9 that Giorgi Kemoklidze, former deputy director of the Penitentiary Department of the Special Penitentiary Service, has been arrested on charges of organizing a staged beating of jailed ex-associate of Bidzina Ivanishvili, Giorgi Bachiashvili.
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"44 People Arrested Over Election-Day Unrest in Tbilisi"
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