DECISION
TAKEN BY THE 15TH (1) SESSION OF THE
COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES
OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN SOVIET DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC on the letter of 9th session
of the South Ossetian oblast Council of 6 May 1989 regarding the condemnation
of the authors of “The Letter to Abkhaz Friends”
As it is known, the 9th session of the South
Ossetian oblast council of the 20th convocation on
On the basis of the declaration of the 9th
session, some of the authors of the letter were brought to the criminal
liability under Article 74 of the Criminal Code of Georgia.
Inter-regional group of Deputies of the 15th
session of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Democratic Republic
expressed its protest against this decision on
The eminent lawyers learnt the text of the letter
in 1989 and found nothing to be used for criminal prosecution against the
authors. All the more, the prognosis of
the letter came true.
Proceeding from the aforementioned, the 15th
session of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Democratic Republic decides:
1. To consider unlawful the criminal prosecution
against the authors of the “Abkhaz Letter” of A. Parastaev, A. Tskhovrebov, A.
Chochiev.
2. To file the motion to the Prosecutor’s office
of the South Ossetian Democratic Republic on termination of the criminal
prosecution against A. Parastaev, A. Tskhovrebov, A. Chochiev.
3. To file
the motion to the Prosecutor’s Office of the South Ossetian democratic Republic
to bring to justice those Deputies of 9th session that cast aspersions on the
authors of the letter.
4. To publish in the Oblast newspaper the Decree
adopted by the 15th Session.
To forward the copy to the Prosecutor’s Office of
the Georgian SSR.
5. To forward the copy of the decree together with
the text of “Abkhaz Letter” to the Prosecutor’s Office of the
Chairman of the Interim Executive Committee
of the Democratic
Secretary of
the Interim Executive Committee
of the Democratic
(Newspaper “Sovetskaia Ossetia”, #199, 23 October 1990)