{"id":1811,"date":"2019-03-26T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcstaging.co.uk\/ehrac\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2021-04-08T19:43:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T18:43:50","slug":"russia-compensation-georgians-deported-2006","status":"publish","type":[30],"link":"http:\/\/ehrac.org.uk\/en_gb\/russia-compensation-georgians-deported-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia must pay \u20ac164,500 to Georgians unlawfully deported in 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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Imagine moving to a country and living there for over a decade. You have a valid work visa and a job. Following a breakdown in diplomatic relations between your native country and your current home, you find yourself arrested and detained, fined and deported within a few days. Your life has been turned upside down.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is precisely what happened to many Georgians who had been living and working in Russia. In 2006, severe diplomatic tensions between Russia and Georgia led to Georgians in Russia being subjected to identity checks, before being arrested, detained and summarily expelled. EHRAC and the\u00a0Georgian Young Lawyers\u2019 Association<\/a>\u00a0(Tbilisi) represented eleven Georgians before the European Court of Human Rights. In December 2016, the Court\u00a0found Russia responsible not only for collective expulsion of some of the group,<\/a>\u00a0but also that their arrests and detentions were arbitrary, the conditions of their detentions amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment, and they had no access to an effective remedy. The Court made similar findings with regard to six other Georgians expelled from Russia.<\/p>\n

Today the Court ordered Russia to pay fifteen applicants a total of \u20ac164,500<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/em>These cases established a plethora of human rights violations arising directly from the Russian authorities\u2019 policy decision to arrest, detain and expel Georgian nationals\u00a0en masse.\u00a0The Court\u2019s judgment underscored the point that collective expulsions can never be justified. It is right that the Court has now awarded damages to the applicants, in view of Russia\u2019s unlawful and egregious actions in these cases.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Prof. Philip Leach, EHRAC Director<\/em><\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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On 20 December 2016, the European Court delivered three judgments regarding Georgians expelled from Russia between September 2006 and January 2007:\u00a0Berdzenishvili and others v Russia<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(of which our case,\u00a0Chokheli and others v Russia<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0was part),\u00a0<\/em>Dzidzava v Russia<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Shioshvili and others v Russia<\/a><\/em>. EHRAC and GYLA also represented the applicant in\u00a0Dzidzava v Russia<\/a><\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t

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Other relevant cases<\/h3>\n

The judgment in this case follows the Grand Chamber\u2019s decision on just satisfaction in\u00a0Georgia v Russia (I) on 31 January 2019<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>In the inter-state case, brought by the Georgian Government against Russia with regard to the 2006 collective expulsion of Georgian citizens,\u00a0<\/em>the Court ordered Russia to pay \u20ac10 million to a group of at least 1500 Georgians, with:<\/p>\n