"International Alert" and public figures of South Ossetia and Abkhazia stand up for Sotieva

Larisa Sotieva, who was prohibited to work in South Ossetia, was exposed to undeserved treatment in Tskhinvali, said the non-profit organization (NPO) "International Alert", where Sotieva is working. The latter was also supported by Timur Tskhurbati, a South-Ossetian journalist, and Arda Inal-Ipa, a member of the Public Chamber of Abkhazia.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that a warning to Sotieva "about the inadmissibility of her actions in the work of the NPO, which are contrary to national interests of South Ossetia," was issued by the Committee for State Security (known as KGB) of South Ossetia on June 25.

According to the KGB, the "International Alert" "is preparing to implement projects of training the South-Ossetian youth leaders in the basics of social protest engineering, which may form the basis for realizing various kinds of 'orange technologies' in the republic. Sotieva "was collecting information about any possible contradictions of South Ossetia and Russia in the political, social and economic spheres," said the KGB.

In its turn the NPO has stated that "the goal of all the work carried out by Sotieva in the post-war South Ossetia was the consolidation of peace and the welfare of ordinary people."

The NPO "International Alert" was created in 1986 and is engaged in the implementation of projects in the field of human rights protection in the areas of military conflicts. The "International Alert" was founded by Martin Ennals, the former Secretary General of the "Amnesty International" and the founder of the human rights organization "Article 19", says the website of the NPO.

It also refutes the information that the "International Alert" was founded by the British secret services.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.