CoE concerned by Russia not paying €10 mln compensation to Georgia
More than 2,300 Georgians were detained and forcibly expelled from Russia back in 2006. Photo:rferl.org
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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.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgement of January 2019 concerns the arrest, detention and collective expulsion of Georgian nationals from Russia in the autumn of 2006 shortly after the arrest of four Russian officers on charges of espionage by Georgia's previous government.
Based on the ECHR ruling, the respondent state had to pay the applicant government €10 million ‘in respect of non-pecuniary damage suffered by a group of at least 1,500 Georgian nationals’ within three months.
Although the deadline for the payment expired in April 2019, the Russian authorities have finally confirmed that they ‘would be in principle willing to use the CoE as an intermediary for the payment of the just satisfaction together with the default interest accrued’ after numerous refusals.
On its part, the applicant government ‘is to set up an effective mechanism for the distribution of the just satisfaction sums to the individual victims of the violations found in the principal judgment’.
At their recent meeting the deputies stressed the important that the Russian and the Georgian authorities 'move forward quickly to finalise and sign the Memoranda of Understanding to enable such payment to take place without any further delay through a Council of Europe bank account held in escrow'.
The consideration of this case will be resumed at the June 2021 meeting at the latest 'on the basis of information to be submitted by the Russian authorities on the concrete progress’ made by April 15.
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.
Georgia has won the 2008 war case against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The court released its judgement earlier today which says that Russia violated several articles of the European Convention on Human rights during the conflict and carried out ethnic cleansing of Georgians. The court said that Russia is carrying out an effective control of Georgia’s Tskhinvali and Abkhazia regions and is responsible for the violation of human rights of Georgian citizens.
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 Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has announced its judgment today in the case of Georgia v. Russia, regarding the arrest, detention and collective expulsion of Georgian nationals from Russia in the autumn of 2006.
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) has again ‘strongly urged’ the Russian authorities to pay €10 million in compensation to Georgian citizens illegally deported in 2006 by September 6, 2021.
The ECHR has ruled two Russian cases submitted to the court pertaining to the August war of 2008 inadmissible: ‘Shavlokhova and others vs. Georgia’ and ‘Bekoyeva and others vs. Georgia’. Georgian Minister of Justice Rati Bregadze said that the cases were filed by individuals living in the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region in August 2008, who claimed that Georgia had breached their human rights.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has stated that the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to dismiss two cases filed by Russia against Georgia regarding the August 2008 war is an important step towards the de-occupation of the country’s two occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has begun considering a total of 59 individual complaints against Russia over the Russia-Georgia 2008 war, which left tens of thousands displaced from their homes in the now-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region, the Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA) announced on Tuesday.
The Council of Europe’s committee of ministers on Friday said it “deeply deplored” the lack of response of the Russian authorities on the 2019 judgement from the European court of human rights that ordered the country to pay €10 million in compensation to 1,500 Georgian nationals over their arrest, detention and collective expulsion from Russia between 2006-2007.
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers on Friday “deeply” deplored the continued absence of response of Russian authorities to its earlier appeals for the state to implement the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights concerning the arrest, detention and collective expulsion of Georgian nationals between 2006-2007.