European Court holding hearing on Russia-Georgia war case this month
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The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will hold a hearing in the case Georgia v. Russia concerning the armed conflict between Georgia and the Russia in August 2008 and its aftermath.
The hearing will take place on May 23, the Council of Europe has reported.
After the hearing the Court will begin its deliberations, which will be held in private. Its ruling in the case will, however, be made at a later stage,” the Council of Europe press release reads.
This case raises issues under articles which concern the right to life, prohibition of torture, inhumane and degrading treatment, the right to liberty and security, the right to respect for private and family life, the right to an effective remedy.
The court has heard 33 witnesses in total: 16 summoned through the Georgian Government, 11 through the Government of Russia and six directly by the court.
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Georgia’s Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance announced the four men, who had served at the Ministry’s Special Forces, would be awarded the Ministry’s highest award for Defending the Law and Honour.
Today marks the eighth anniversary of the most tragic day in Georgia’s recent history – the beginning of the brief but violent August 8 war between Russia and Georgia. The country is remembering those who lost their lives to defend their homeland.
The Russia-Georgia conflict is continuing to haunt many citizens but the Georgian Government is promising to do its best to ease the pain and suffering of future generations.
The committee of Ministers' Deputies has assessed the initiative "as a vivid sign of Georgia’s firm commitment to promote confidence and interaction between the societies split by the dividing lines.”
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has released its statistics for 2018, which reads that there were 99 new applications allocated from Georgia.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has delivered a verdict in the case of Goguadze v. Georgia, which reads that the man was tortured and abused under the United National Movement government back in 2011 and the state must pay €10,000 in compensation.
The European Court of Human Rights 2019 statistics read that for Georgia, an unprecedented, 1,390 applications were declared inadmissible or struck out in the last year, compared to 141 in 2018 and 232 in 2017. Applications are declared inadmissible when they do not meet all the admissible criteria of the court and are dismissed without being examined, while applications are truck out when an applicant does not reply to the court’s requests in a mandatory time, after the application was assigned to judicial formation.