ECHR begins considering individual complaints of Georgians against Russia over 2008 war
The war between Russia and Georgia started on August 8, 2008, and left 408 Georgian citizens dead and about 26,000 internally displaced. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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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 ECHR has already addressed Russia with questions regarding all registered complaints, 12 of which have been sent by GYLA to represent 78 people. The defendant country must provide the court with answers before May 2, 2022.
GYLA said it was representing over 350 people who are victims of the five-day conflict that took place in August 2008, with an overall of 53 complaints filed over violations of “various rights under the European Convention by the Russian Federation during the war.”
The complaints concern the issues such as the right to protection of private and family life, property rights, freedom of movement and prohibition of discrimination.
In 2021 the ECHR released its ruling on a separate case, pursued by Georgia against Russia in the case of the 2008 war, stating Russia violated six articles of the European Convention on Human rights during the conflict and carried out ethnic cleansing of Georgians, obliging the country to pay Georgia €10,000,000 for non-pecuniary damage suffered by a group of at least 1,500 Georgian nationals.
The war between Russia and Georgia started on August 8, 2008, and left 408 Georgian citizens dead and about 26,000 internally displaced.
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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.
Italian political party Forza Italia released a statement on Wednesday in response to its member Matteo Dall'Osso’s initiating a press conference around “self-determination” of the Russian-occupied Georgian region of Abkhazia, saying the event had been a “strictly personal initiative” of the MP and noting it “reflects neither the position of Italy nor of Forza Italia.”
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The International Criminal Court in Hague has issued arrest warrants against three de facto officials of Georgia's Russian-occupied breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region in a case of torture and ill-treatment of Georgian civilians during the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, the Georgian Justice Ministry announced earlier today.
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The European Court of Human Rights has declared inadmissible 370 individual complaints filed against Georgia by residents of the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region in connection to the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, Rati Bregadze, the Georgian Justice Minister, said at a briefing on Thursday.
The decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) against de facto officials of Georgia’s occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region on a 2008 Russia-Georgia war case is a “great victory” and “great success” for Georgia, Maka Botchorishvili, the Chairwoman of the Georgian Parliament’s European Union Integration Committee, said on Friday.
The pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Thursday issued arrest warrants for three former high-ranking officials in the de facto authorities of Georgia’s Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region, in a decision that follows a 2021 European Court of Human Rights ruling over their human rights violations during the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia in the region.
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 European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ruled the 2014 arrest and detention of Gigi Ugulava, the former Mayor of Tbilisi under the United National Movement Government, by Georgian Dream authorities on charges of money laundering had been based on legitimate suspicions that he might be a “flight risk or otherwise harm the investigation”.