European Court launches discussion on high-profile Temirlan Machalikashvili case
Temirlan Machalikashvili suffered a fatal injury to the head he received during the December 26, 2017 anti-terrorist raid in Panksi.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has launched a discussion on the high profile case of terrorism suspect Temirlan Machalikashvili, who received a fatal injury during an anti-terrorist raid in Georgia’s Muslim-populated Pankisi Gorge back in 2017.
The family of the deceased 19-year-old man addressed the ECHR on June 6, 2019 and argue that three articles of the European human rights convention have been violated in the Machalikashvili case:
- Article 2 (right to life).
- Article 3 (prohibition of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment).
- Article 13 (right to effective remedies).
The Machalikashvili family says that Temirlan was “mistakenly killed” in the special operation and has been demanding the punishment of top officials of the Georgian State Security Service, including current Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri, who previously headed the agency.
The Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC) says that the ECHR has already requested the case materials from Georgia, including the documents related to the planning and implementation of the Pankisi anti-terrorist operation.
Father of deceased terror suspect Temirlan Machalikashvili, Malkhaz Machalikashvili, does not deny that he may have had a conversation with his relative regarding a terror attack on former deputy head of Georgia’s State Security Service Ioseb Gogashvili, as “he had such thoughts during a time of much anger.”
Father of deceased terror suspect Temirlan Machalikashvili, Malkhaz Machalikashvili, attempted to kill the former deputy head of Georgia’s State Security Service (SSS) Ioseb Gogashvili, the State Security Service of Georgia announced at a special briefing earlier today.
19-year-old Temirlan Machalikashvili, who was accused of supporting terrorists, died early today at a hospital in capital Tbilisi, after about two weeks of being in a coma.
Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor Irakli Shotadze has offered the family of recently deceased terrorism suspect Temirlan Machalikashvili to meet in Tbilisi, at Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office headquarters.
The Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC), an organisation working on human rights issues, has demanded a crime scene reenactment and re-interrogation of special unit officers in the high-profile Temirlan Machalikashvili case, a 19-year-old who received a deadly wound during an anti-terrorist raid in Georgia’s Muslim-populated Pankisi Gorge back in 2017.
The Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s Office has ended its investigation into the high profile Temirlan Machalikashvili case, that of a 19-year-old terrorist suspect who received a fatal injury during an anti-terrorist raid in Georgia’s Muslim-populated Pankisi Gorge back in 2017. The Prosecutor’s Office spokesperson stated at a special briefing earlier today that they uncovered ‘no abuse of authority’ in the case.
The Georgian State Security Service (SSS) says that five individuals who were arrested in Georgia’s Muslim-populated Pankisi gorge earlier today were members of terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) and had plans to leave for Syria.
The United National Movement (UNM), European Georgia, Droa and Girchi - More Freedom opposition parties will nominate Malkhaz Machalikashvili, the father of a terrorism suspect killed during a police raid back in 2017, for their joint majoritarian candidate for the Duisi election constituency in eastern Kakheti region in the October 2 municipal race.
The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ruled there was “no sufficient evidence” to suggest responsibility of the Georgian state in the death of Temirlan Machalikashvili, a 19-year-old local of the country’s north-eastern Pankisi Gorge who died following an anti-terrorist operation involving the State Security Service in 2017.