CoE to again discuss Russian refusal to pay €10 mln compensation to Georgia in March
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Georgian Justice Ministry has reported that the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) will again discuss how Russia implements the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) which obliged the country to pay a €10 million fine to Georgian citizens illegally deported in 2006.
The ECHR judgement concerns the arrest, detention and collective expulsion of Georgian nationals from Russia in the autumn of 2006.
Russia, which has an “unconditional obligation” to fulfill the ECHR verdict, remains reluctant to do so, blaming Georgia in not providing the precise list of the “victims”.
More than 2,300 were detained and forcibly expelled and the remaining left Russia by their own means. Photo:rferl.org
Ria Novosti reported on Thursday that Russian officials are expecting Georgia to provide the list of those affected by the expulsion, including the exact type of violation they faced and the amount of the compensation per person.
However, Moscow says Georgia has not provided the list, hidnering them to refund.
ECHR obliged Russia to pay Georgia 10,000,000 euros for non-pecuniary damage suffered by a group of at least 1,500 Georgian nationals in January 2019. Russia had the obligation to pay the fine before the end of April 2019, but refused to do so.
In December 2019, the CoE Committee of Ministers urged Russia for the second time to pay the compensation, but in vain.
The CoE Committee of Ministers has urged Russia for the second time to pay €10 million compensation to Georgia for illegal deportation of Georgians from Russia back in 2006, and with the step abide by the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered against Russia on January 31, 2019. Russia had the obligation to pay the compensation before the end of April 2019, but refused to do so.
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 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.
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.
Russia is ready to participate in discussions over its obligation of paying €10 million in compensation to Georgian citizens who were illegally deported from Russia back in 2006, Georgian Justice Minister Gocha Lortkipanidze stated earlier today. The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in January 2019 that Russia must pay out the compensation. However, Russia has refused to do so.
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) has expressed its ‘profound concern’ that Russia, which is obliged to pay a €10 million fine to Georgian citizens illegally deported in 2006, has made no payment yet.
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’.