Georgia has won “all 3,300 complaints” over Russia-Georgia war at ECHR - Justice Minister
Justice Minister Rati Bregadze on Friday highlighted Georgia’s success in international courts against Russia. Photo: Justice Ministry press office
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Georgia has won all 3,300 complaints filed against it following the 2008 war with Russia to the European Court of Human Rights over potential violations and crimes committed during the conflict, Justice Minister Rati Bregadze said on Friday.
In comments to the Parliament, the official stressed the court process had been completed this year with no suits remaining to be submitted from the complaints.
Georgia has won absolutely all cases, which once again confirms the country is right in all its disputes against Russia”, Bregadze said.
Noting recent rulings by the ECHR in favour of Georgia over the war, the Minister said his office had created a database of individuals affected by the conflict for the first time, with the information later submitted to the court for compensation rulings.
The database includes up to 35,000 victims. We have also presented solid evidence on the ongoing [postwar] occupation dispute, which includes cases of Georgian citizens killed by occupation forces”, Bregadze said.
The Minister said his office had presented the list of up to 35,000 victims of the Russia-Georgia 2008 war to ECHR. Photo: Council of Europe.
He also pointed out this year had marked the country’s success in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which for the first time issued arrest warrants against three de facto officials of the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region in a case of torture and ill-treatment of Georgian civilians during the 2008 war.
In a separate case, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers earlier this month “deeply deplored” the “continued absence of response” of Russian authorities to its earlier appeals for the state to implement the ECHR’s 2019 judgement concerning the arrest, detention and collective expulsion of Georgian nationals between 2006-2007.
Russia has refused to pay €10 million “in respect of non-pecuniary damage” suffered by a group of at least 1,500 Georgian nationals in their treatment by the country’s authorities.
The Committee also adopted an interim resolution on an interstate case concerning various violations in the context of the armed conflict between Georgia and Russia in 2008.
It again urged Russian authorities to submit to the Committee of Ministers a plan on the execution of judgement, and to investigate the “serious crimes” committed during the active phase of hostilities as well as during the period of subsequent occupation.
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 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.
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 recent conclusion of the International Criminal Court on Russia-Georgia 2008 conflict “has confirmed” Georgian troops had acted “in full accordance” with international law during the war, Beka Dzamashvili, the Deputy Justice Minister of Georgia said on Friday, in response to the completion of the ICC investigation opened in 2016.
Levan Davitashvili, the Georgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, on Monday praised his Government’s “close cooperation” with the International Criminal Court in the latter’s investigation into possible crimes committed during the 2008 Russia-Georgia war.
Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregadze and his deputies on Thursday briefed the country’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on the body’s planned 2023 work and innovative projects, including the introduction of a new generation of citizen IDs.
The European Court of Human Rights ruling in a case involving a former prisoner has “confirmed” torture and inhuman treatment were “systematic and widespread” in Georgian prisons under the United National Movement Government, the country’s Justice Ministry said on Friday.
The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday deemed Georgia’s application against Russia on alleged deterioration of the human rights situation along the administrative boundary line between the Government-controlled territory and its Russian-occupied territories as admissible.
Irakli Kadagishvili, the Chair of the Rules and Procedural Issues Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, on Thursday said the country’s authorities were in “constant legal battle” to ensure human rights protection in the Russian-occupied territories of the country.
The Georgian Justice Ministry on Thursday said the decision of the European Court of Human Rights to admit Georgia’s application against Russia on the alleged deterioration of the human rights situation along the administrative boundary line “once again confirmed” that Russia was responsible for mass violations against Georgian citizens.
The Georgian Justice Ministry on Friday highlighted “another historic victory” of the country against Russia in a European Court of Human Rights case related to the 2008 war between the two states, after the ECHR ordered the Russian Government to pay up to €130 million for the benefit of 24,000 Georgian citizens affected during the war.
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.
Thea Tsulukiani, the Georgian Vice Prime Minister, on Thursday said the Government’s legal fight against Russia in international courts was part of its policy to reintegrate the Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions peacefully.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Tuesday endorsed amendments to the resolution on the Russian-occupied territories of Georgia that had been initiated by Maka Botchorishvili, the Chair of the European Integration Committee of the Georgian Parliament.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Tuesday urged an “immediate and unconditional” withdrawal of Russian military forces from Georgia’s occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
The Georgian foreign office on Monday highlighted a “serious threat to the security architecture” of the wider region and Europe posed by the 2008 intervention of Russia into Georgia, in comments over the 15th anniversary of the aggression that sparked that year’s war between the two countries.
Foreign government officials, dignitaries of international organisations and diplomats on Monday expressed their support for Georgia's territorial integrity and sovereignty and condemned Russia’s 2008 aggression against it in comments over the 15th anniversary of the conflict.
The Georgian State Ministry for Reconciliation and Civil Equality on Monday said Russia was proceeding with its illegal occupation of Georgia’s Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions in “gross violation” of international law and the 2008 ceasefire agreement, in a message for the 15th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia 2008 conflict.