Georgia enforces record number of European Court verdicts in 2017
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The government of Georgia has enforced a record number of 3,691 verdicts in 2017 issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
This information was published in the annual report by the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, responsible for monitoring the execution of judgement.
The committee says that all the cases are considered "closed”, meaning that the country "has taken all measures to execute judgments.”
The cases which were considered closed in 2016 amounted to 2,066, while the figure was 240 in 2009 under the United National Movement government.
The report reads that the total number of new cases submitted to the ECHR from Georgia in 2017 was 1,333, out of which 179 (13%) were leading cases, those revealing new structural and or systemic problems and 1,154 (87%) were repetitive cases, which have already been raised before the committee.
The total number of new cases has been relatively stable since 2013, whereas the number of new leading cases in 2017 (179) was the lowest recorded since 2005,” the report reads.
The government of Georgia says it is taking all measures to reduce the number of Georgian cases in the ECtHR.
Lado Chanturia has been officially sworn in as the new judge representing Georgia at the European Court of Human Rights. He has been Georgia’s ambassador to Germany since 2014, and Chairman of the Supreme Court in 1999-2004 and Justice Minister in 1998-1999.
The European Court released statistics for 2017, which shows that the Georgian Government had communicated only 25 applications last year; another 232 applications were declared inadmissible or struck out and in 12 cases judgments were delivered.
The pre-trial detention of former Georgian Prime Minister Ivane (Vano) Merabishvili was lawful, but later it was unduly used as a means to exert pressure on him, says the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has listened to the testimony of 33 witnesses caught up in the short but brutal war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008.
The Council of Europe reported today that Protocol No. 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights is coming into play from August 1, 2018, which establishes dialogue between the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights and the higher courts designated by the Council member states
According to the report, one of the most significant human rights issues were arbitrary detentions and deprivation of life by Russian and de facto authorities of the country’s citizens along the administrative boundary lines with the Russian-occupied Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Striking the town of Gori’s center by the Iskander – a mobile short-range ballistic missile system produced and deployed by the Russian Federation – is one of the central episodes that will be discussed by the court which will start its deliberations after the hearing in private.
The final hearing in the case of Georgia v. Russia has come to the end at the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. Georgia’s British lawyer Ben Emerson, a representative of Russian Justice Ministry and the lawyer of the state of Russia, addressed a panel of 17 judges.
Beginning from August 1st, the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court of Georgia can request the European Court to give advisory opinions on questions of principle relating to the interpretation or application of the rights and freedoms defined in the European Convention of Human Rights.
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected the complaints of several Russian citizens living in the Georgian occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region, who filed against Georgia and claimed that the Georgian Army violated their rights during the Russia-Georgia 2008 war.
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has released its conclusion on the execution of the 2017 judgement of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on ex-Interior Minister of Georgia Ivane Merabishvili, which ruled that the imprisonment of the latter was fair but Merabishvili’s rights were violated in a certain situation.