FILE PHOTO: An Ossetian flag is seen on a closed road at the de facto border of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia in Ergneti, Georgia, June 7, 2018. Picture taken June 7, 2018. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili/File Photo
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia on Sunday demanded the release of a doctor detained by separatists after crossing into breakaway South Ossetia, which is controlled by Russia after a war between two ex-Soviet republics in 2008.
Vazha Gaprindashvili, president of Georgia's Association of Orthopaedist and Traumatologists, was taken to South Ossetia's regional centre Tskhinvali on Wednesday and given two months of pretrial custody by the separatists, Georgia's State security service has said. The separatists say he crossed over illegally.
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