Georgia’s CoE representative presents report on human rights situation in Russian-occupied territories
The Georgian official stressed the “historic” importance of the ruling, calling it an “unprecedented international victory” of the Georgian state. Photo: Parliament of Georgia
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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.
Taliashvili provided the CoE Secretary General and member states with “detailed information” on security, human rights and humanitarian situation in the Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions.
In her comments, she highlighted the 2021 ruling of the European Court of Human Rights that said Russia had violated several articles of the European Convention on Human rights during the 2008 conflict between the two countries and carried out ethnic cleansing of Georgians.
The Georgian official stressed the “historic” importance of the ruling, calling it an “unprecedented international victory” of the Georgian state.
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 (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 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.
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.