CoE discusses Russian refusal of €10 mln compensation for Georgia, demands urgent payment
The Council of Europe has released a conclusion on Russia’s refusal to pay a fine for the illegal deportation of Georgians in 2006.Photo:greekreporter.com.
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The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe says that Russia has an “unconditional obligation” to fulfill the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and pay €10 million to Georgian citizens illegally deported in 2006.
The Committee of Ministers says that Russia must also pay default interest accrued because of the delay of the payment.
The discussion of the issue was held between September 23-25, and the conclusion was released earlier today.
The Georgian Justice Ministry appealed to the Committee of Ministers of the CoE to discuss Russia’s failure to abide by the judgement.
Russia had the obligation to pay the fine before the end of April 2019, but refused to do so.
- The Georgian government says that in 2006 more than 4,600 expulsion orders were issued by Russian authorities against Georgian nationals.
- More than 2,300 were detained and forcibly expelled and the remaining left the country by their own means.
- The mass deportation was preceded by the arrest of four Russian officers on charges of espionage by the previous government of Georgia in September 2006.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) stated today that Russia must pay from €2,000 to €15,000 to Georgian nationals who were mistreated by the Russian government in the autumn of 2006, when hundreds of Georgian citizens were illegally detained and then deported from Russia.
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe will discuss on how Russia implemented the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights which obliged the country pay a €10 million fine to Georgian citizens illegally deported in 2006.
Members of the Georgian delegation and six other countries left a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) yesterday in protest as Russia regained its voting right after having lost it in 2014 following its annexation of the Crimea.
Georgian Justice Ministry has called on the European Council Committee of Ministers to examine the case of the deportation of hundreds of Georgian nationals in late September 2006 and early 2007 from Russia under intensified surveillance procedure.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that the presumption of innocence was violated against former official and MP Irakli Batiashvili in 2006, under the United National Movement leadership and now the state must pay him 3,600 euros for non-pecuniary damage.
Georgian Justice Ministry has reported that the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe will again discuss how Russia implements the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights, which obliged the country to pay a €10 million fine to Georgian citizens illegally deported in 2006.
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has given a Russia deadline of November 12, 2020 to pay a €10 million fine to Georgia for illegal deportation of Georgian citizens back in 2006, the Ministry of Justice of Georgia reported earlier today. If Russia still refuses to pay the compensation per the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights in 2019, the council will adopt an interim resolution in December 2020 - the first step for the launching of procedures against Russia for shirking its responsibilities.
In the document, the CoE welcomed the recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case Georgia v. Russia that ‘established the responsibility of Russia for grave human rights violations during the period of occupation of the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali following the August 2008 war, as the state exercising effective control over those regions’.