TBILISI. April 16 (Interfax) - Two Georgian journalists have been held in the village of Adzvi in Georgia's Gori District (the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone).
The journalists Bela Zakaidze and Vakho Lekiashvili were arrested after they entered a territory no longer controlled by Georgian authorities, according to the TV-3 television station.
They were going to do a report about a church which ended up in the Tskhinvali-controlled territory as a result of the border drawn along the contact line in the conflict zone.
Georgia has already reported the incident to the EU observers who have activated the hotline with South Ossetian leaders.
Following the incident, the Georgian Patriarchy asked Georgian Prime Minister's Special Representative for Russia Relations Zurab Abashidze to discuss at his April 16 meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin in Prague the question of local Georgian access to the church and the adjacent cemetery ahead of the Christian Orthodox Easter.