Georgia
Known as the most promising young democracy in the region, Georgia and its turbulent political and social contexts present a number of complex structural challenges to effective human rights protection. Political instability, deeply entrenched ‘traditional’ societal views, the influential role of the Church, and interstate tensions with Russia over have guided EHRAC’s priorities for strategic litigation.
Together with our Georgian partners, we have successfully litigated precedent-setting cases addressing ill-treatment, torture and deaths in custody, alongside the state’s failure to effectively investigate actions of security forces, violence, attacks and prejudice against women and LGBTIQ+ people, inadequate healthcare in prisons, and conflict and occupation related violations.
Key EHRAC Cases
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Georgia
Homophobic and transphobic police raid on Georgian LGBTIQ+ NGO.
Advocacy and implementation Politically motivated cases
Georgia
Case No. 71503/01 Judgment date: 8 April 2004 The applicants were represented by lawyers…
Politically motivated cases
Georgia Russia
Case Nos. 14594/07 et al., & 16363/07 Judgment date: 20 December 2016 In Berdzenishvili,…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Georgia Russia South Ossetia
Forum: ECtHR Case Nos. 24964/09 et al. Admissibility decision date: 29 January 2019 Facts In all three…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia
Case No. 25091/07 Judgment date: 26/04/11 In the early morning of 28 January 2006…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia
Case No. 2228/10 Decision Date: 1 April 2014 In May 2008, two police officers…
Conflict and occupation abuses Politically motivated cases
Georgia Russia
Case No. 13255/07 Judgment date: 03/07/09 On 26 March 2007, the Georgian authorities lodged…
Conflict and occupation abuses Politically motivated cases
Georgia Russia
Case No. 13255/07 Judgment Date: 3 July 2014 In 2007 Georgia filed a case in…
Conflict and occupation abuses Politically motivated cases
Georgia Russia
Forum: ECtHR (GC) Case No.: 13255/07 Judgment date: 31 January 2019 Facts This case concerns the expulsion…
Violence against women and girls
Georgia
Over the last year, EHRAC and our partners at the Georgian Young Lawyers Association…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Georgia
Georgian transgender man denied legal gender recognition.
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Georgia
Case No. 73235/12 Judgment Date: 12 May 2015 The applicants are Identoba, a Georgian NGO…
Environment
Georgia
Case No. 38342/05 Judgment date: 13 July 2017 The three applicants lived in Tbilisi…
Repression of civil society
Georgia
Case No. 1484/07 Judgment date: 2 October 2012 The applicants were five human rights activists,…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia
Kist teenager fatally shot by Georgian security forces.
Conflict and occupation abuses
Georgia
Killing of Giga Otkhozoria at Abkhaz border.
Politically motivated cases
Georgia
Wrongful detention of former Prime Minister of Georgia.
Politically motivated cases
Georgia
Case No. 72508/13 Judgment date: 14 June 2016 On 21 May 2013, the applicant, Mr…
Politically motivated cases
Georgia
Case No. 72508/13 Judgment date: 28 November 2017 On 21 May 2013, Ivane Merabishvili,…
Right to liberty and security
Georgia
Case No. 30779/04 Judgment date: 6/11/07 The applicant, Gia Patsuria, a Georgian national, was…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia
Case No. 9870/07 Judgment date: 24/02/09 These cases concerned two prisoners serving sentences in…
Politically motivated cases Repression of civil society
Georgia
Case No. 1704/06 Judgment date: 27/01/09 Ramishvili and Kokhreidze were co-founders and shareholders of…
Politically motivated cases
Georgia
Forum: ECtHR Case No.: 16812/17 Judgment date: 18 July 2019 Facts The applications were…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia
Case No. 35403/06 Judgement date: 15 February 2011 The applicant’s son, Zurab Tsintsabadze, was serving…
Violence against women and girls
Georgia
Communication No. 24/2009 Decision date: 13 July 2015 X was raped by her future…
Advocacy and implementation Violence against women and girls
Georgia
Root-and-branch domestic violence reform in Georgia.
