The case concerned the abduction, beating and killing, on a winter night in 2006, of a 28-year old man by a group of senior law enforcement officers and the lack of an effective investigation and appropriate punishment. 

Applicants – Irina Enukidze (mother of Sandro Girgvliani, who died in August, 2007) and Guram Girgvliani (father, lives in Tbilisi) – claimed that the following rights of the European Convention on Human Rights have been violated: Article 2 (right to life); article 3 (prohibition of torture); article 6 (right to a fair trial) and article 13 (right to an effective remedy), Girgvliani’s family also complained under Article 38 (examination of the case) of the Convention that the Georgian government has not submitted to the European Court all the evidence necessary for the examination of the case.

The European Court of Human Rights held, by a majority, that there had been: Violations of Article 2 (right to life) and Article 38 (obligation to cooperate with the Court) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

“It is striking that, in such a particularly complex case, the proceedings at first instance lasted only nine days, during which period it was hardly feasible either for the civil parties or even for the judges to study the voluminous case materials,” said the European Court of Human Rights.

The Court awarded applicant to EUR 50,000 for non-pecuniary damage and EUR 388 for costs and expenses; the applicants claimed EUR 300,000.

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