Council of Europe is concerned with a death of Georgian woman in Moscow

The Council of Europe is seriously concerned with the death of a Georgian woman, whom Russian authorities were about to deport from Moscow to Tbilisi.

The Council of Europe's statement runs that they would keep close trace on investigation of what has happened, the Liberty Radio reports.

Russian human rights activists are going to hold their own investigation.

Manana Jabelia died on December 2 from heart attack in the Moscow special custody centre for foreigners. The refugee from Abkhazia was detained early in October, when her passport was at the exchange procedure in the Georgian Embassy. The court sentenced her to deportation. Ms. Manana started hunger strike, then a new consideration was appointed. The Moscow City Court ruled to release her. However, the ruling had arrived to the custody centre with a delay caused by multitude of intermediary instances.

Manana Jabelia felt bad in the cell, she suffered from frequent hypertension attacks, and the ambulance was called up to her, the Russian "Novaya Gazeta" reports.

We remind you that the most of Georgian citizens in Russia are refugees from Abkhazia. During the 1991-1992 war, the people who were forced to leave their homes had moved here together with their families. "It should be stated that Russia has failed so far to provide the Abkhazian refugees with any legal status. This happens at the background of the fact that today 80% of the population in the non-recognized Abkhazia are citizens of Russia. But nobody cares of them here," Svetlana Gannushkina, member of the Board of the Human Right Centre "Memorial," stated earlier.