Kavkas-Press, Georgia Jan 29 2009 Two ethnic Armenians accused of espionage in Georgia Tbilisi, 29 January: A Tbilisi court has decided to sentence to two months in preliminary detention two representatives of the Armenian diaspora in Georgia - Grigor Minasyan and Sargis Hakobjanyan - suspected of espionage. The Georgian counterintelligence detained Minasyan and Hakobjanyan, residents of the town of Akhaltsikhe (administrative centre of Samtskhe-Javakheti Province), on 22 January. Their apartments were searched and some hard disks confiscated. Grigor Minasyan is the head of an Armenian youth centre in Akhaltsikhe while Sargis Hakobjanyan heads the Charles Aznavour charity organization. They are accused of espionage and of forming an illegal armed formation. Despite protests on the part of the Armenian population in Samtskhe-Javakheti, the Georgian authorities insist that accusations against Minasyan and Hakobjanyan are well-founded. [Georgian] Minister of State for Reintegration Temur Iakobashvili said that "there are small groups muddling water in the region, acting in accordance with orders from a neighbouring country [referring to Armenia] under the guise of NGOs".