Parliament EU Integration Committee Chair: International Criminal Court decision “great victory”, “great success” for Georgia
The Chairwoman said the result showed the work of the Georgian Government and the steps taken by it were “well-recognised in the decisions made and implemented at the international level." Photo: Maka Bochorishvili facebook page.
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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.
Botchorishvili was responding to the ICC’s issuing of arrest warrants against three de facto officials of the occupied breakaway region in a case of torture and ill-treatment of Georgian civilians during the 2008 conflict.
The Chairwoman said the result showed the work of the Georgian Government and the steps taken by it were “well-recognised in the decisions made and implemented at the international level.”
ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan announced on March 10 the arrest warrants were introduced against the following three officials:
Mikhail Mayramovich Mindzaev, Minister of Internal Affairs of the de facto Tskhinvali, on the position between 2005 and October 31, 2008
Gamlet Guchmazov, who held the position of the Head of the Preliminary Detention Facility of the de facto Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tskhinvali region during the war
David Georgiyevich Sanakoev, Presidential Representative for Human Rights of Tskhinvali region, also served as Ombudsman during the 2008 war.
The aforementioned individuals are accused of crimes including unlawful confinement, torture, inhumane treatment, violation of personal dignity, hostage-taking and unlawful transfer.
The “truth” about the 2008 Russia-Georgia war has been confirmed in international courts through Georgia winning legal battles against Russia, Archil Talakvadze, the Georgian Parliament Vice Speaker, said in reaction to the European Court of Human Rights decision on inadmissibility of complaints by residents living in the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region (South Ossetia) on Thursday.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague has confirmed Georgia’s occupation, ethnic cleansing and gross human rights violations by Russia, Sozar Subari, an MP from the ruling Georgian Dream party, said in comments to this week’s ruling by the Court on torture of Georgian citizens during the 2008 Russia-Georgia war.
The decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) against de facto officials of Georgia’s Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region concerning cases of crimes committed during the 2008 Russia-Georgia war mark a “win for Georgia”, Nikoloz Samkharadze, the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) MP who chairs the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Friday.
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 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 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.
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.
The Council of Europe’s committee of ministers “strongly called” on Russia to submit a “full-fledged” action plan for the implementation of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights of 2021, to start taking effective steps to eliminate the main basis of the violations, continuous occupation, and to prevent the recurrence of human rights violations, the Georgian justice ministry announced on Saturday.
Tamar Taliashvili, Georgia’s representative to the Council of Europe, on Wednesday presented a report on the human rights situation in the Russian-occupied territories of the country at a meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the organisation.
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.