Abkhaz court sentences Georgian spy to 19 years in prison
13:09 02/09/2009 SUKHUMI, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - The Abkhazian Supreme Court has sentenced a resident of Abkhazia, convicted of spying for Georgia, to 19 years imprisonment, a national newspaper said on Wednesday.
Diana Shedania was arrested in September 2008 in possession of photos and videos of military installations in the former Georgian republic. She was sentenced on August 20 however, the report of the ruling has only just been released.
She will serve her sentence in a minimum-security prison, the Ekho Abkhazia paper said.
Following the conflict Russia recognized both Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states. The republics celebrated the first anniversary of Russia's recognition on August 26. So far the only other country to have recognized them is Nicaragua.
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