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Tamta Mikeladze
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Tamta is a lawyer and human rights activist from Georgia. She is one of the founders of the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre and is an associate professor at Ilia State University.
Opinion | Nearly two years after the killing of Temirlan Machalikashvili there are still no answers
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Opinion | Nearly two years after the killing of Temirlan Machalikashvili there are still no answers

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Temirlan Machalikashvili was killed by Georgian security forces in his own bed. The investigation into his death, marked by irregularities and conflicts of interest, has stalled. The government still refuses to act. 19-year-old Temirlan Machalikashvili fell into a coma and died after he was shot in the head during a special operation by the Georgian State Security Service (SSG) in Duisi, a village in the Pankisi Valley, on the night of 26 December 2017. Family members remember that specia