ECHR statistics 2018: 99 applications received from Georgia
The ECHR report reads that for Georgia, the total number of judgments delivered between 1959 and 2017 was 90 – at least one violation found in 70 cases. Photo:CoE.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has released its statistics for 2018, which reads that there were 99 new applications allocated from Georgia.
In 2017, 89 cases were lodged with the court.
For Georgia, 141 applications were declared inadmissible or struck out in 2018, and judgements were delivered in 15 cases”, the report reads
The report says that for Georgia, 1,873 applications are still pending, a slight decrease from 1,924 applications in 2017.
Georgia, as well as Armenia and Azerbaijan, are in the top-ten countries with the highest number of pending applications,” the report reads.
For Georgia, 10 judgments were delivered in 2018, and in 9 of them a violation was found, comparable to 12 judgments delivered in 2017.
The highest number of violations were related to the right to liberty and security, the right to a fair trial and the right to protection against inhuman and degrading treatment, the report says.
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.
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 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.
The Government of Georgia is re-announcing the competition for the Georgian judge in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), as the court expert-advisers stated two out of the three candidates sent from Georgia lacked length of professional activities for occupying the post.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has released its verdict regarding two cases involving Georgian citizens and ruled that their rights had been violated under the United National Movement leadership.
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.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Georgia must pay 25,000 euros to Tbilisi resident Mariam Sakvarelidze, 71, whose son and sister died in 2003, during Rose Revolution protests in Georgia when an armoured military vehicle hit their car in the capital city on November 22, 2003, a day before the culmination of the 20-day protests.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Georgia must pay 80,000 euros to the families of two inmates who were killed during a riot in Georgian prisons back in 2006, under the United National Movement government.