European Court of Human Rights rejects complaints against Georgia over 2008 war as inadmissible
The decision of the court also reaffirms that the “serious violations” committed against the population of Georgia during the 2008 war could be “attributed to specific representatives” of the Russian Federation and the separatist regimes, Bregadze pointed out. Photo: Justice Ministry.
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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 European Court shared the arguments of the Georgian side that the complaints were manifestly ill-founded, as evidence of a minimum standard could not be presented to substantiate the applicants' claims," Bregadze said at the Ministry.
In findings related to the complaints, the ECHR found the Tskhinvali region was “actively bombed” by forces of the Russian Federation during the war, and that the Georgian Armed Forces did not exercise control over the region and the surrounding area, the Justice Minister explained.
The decision of the court also reaffirms that the “serious violations” committed against the population of Georgia during the 2008 war could be “attributed to specific representatives” of the Russian Federation and the separatist regimes, Bregadze pointed out.
According to the ECHR ruling, the complaints filed by the population living in the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region against Georgia regarding active hostilities during the August 2008 war have ended and all disputes over this issue have been settled.
On March 21, Georgia won a 2008 war case against Russia in the ECHR. The court released its judgement which said Russia violated several articles of the European Convention on Human rights during the conflict and carried out ethnic cleansing of Georgians.
On March 11, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against three de facto officials of Georgia's Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region in a case of torture and ill-treatment of Georgian civilians during the 2008 war.
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 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 “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.
Jeppe Kofod, the Danish Foreign Minister, has condemned a referendum planned in Georgia's Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region on the province joining the Russian Federation as “totally unacceptable”.
Prospects of deepening the existing cooperation between Georgia and the European Court of Human Rights were discussed on Wednesday by Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and ECHR President Robert Spano.
Georgia has become one of the prominent examples of democracy, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Friday, while pointing to the reduction of complaints involving the country at the European Court of Human Rights.
Russia has established an “apartheid regime” in Georgia’s occupied regions, where ethnic discrimination of Georgians continues, Nikoloz Samkharadze, the head of the Georgian delegation to the OSCE parliamentary assembly and the chair of the parliament's foreign relations committee said on Saturday at the assembly’s autumn meeting in Warsaw.
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.
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.
Levan Ioseliani, an MP of the Citizens opposition party in the Parliament, on Friday said it was “no surprise” the European Court of Human Rights had “reaffirmed the systemic crimes” committed by the United National Movement Government in its latest ruling in a case involving a former Georgian prisoner.
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.