President Zurabishvili: ECHR judgement shows Georgia is on ‘the right side of history’
President Zurabishvili wrote on Twitter that the ECHR’s ruling once again showed Georgia on ‘the right side of history.’ Photo: Georgian president's press office.
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Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has stated that the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to dismiss two cases filed by Russia against Georgia regarding the August 2008 war is an important step towards the de-occupation of the country’s two occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
Zurabishvili wrote on Twitter that the ECHR’s ruling once again showed Georgia on ‘the right side of history.’
In “Bekoeva and Others v. Georgia" and "Shavlokhova and Others v. Georgia”, Georgia was once again shown on the right side of history by the #ECHR.
— Salome Zourabichvili (@Zourabichvili_S) October 21, 2021
The Strasbourg court ruling the appeals inadmissible is yet a new judicial important victory on our path to peaceful deoccupation
The ECHR released its decisions on ‘Shavlokhova and Others v. Georgia’ and ‘Bekoyeva and Others v. Georgia’ on October 21, ruling both cases inadmissible.
Georgia won another lawsuit against Russia over the 2008 Russo-Georgian war in the ECHR on January 21, 2021.
The verdict found Russia responsible for violating the human rights of Georgian citizens, and recognized the Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions as integral parts of Georgia.
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) has expressed its ‘profound concern’ that Russia, which is obliged to pay a €10 million fine to Georgian citizens illegally deported in 2006, has made no payment yet.
The ECHR has ruled two Russian cases submitted to the court pertaining to the August war of 2008 inadmissible: ‘Shavlokhova and others vs. Georgia’ and ‘Bekoyeva and others vs. Georgia’. Georgian Minister of Justice Rati Bregadze said that the cases were filed by individuals living in the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region in August 2008, who claimed that Georgia had breached their human rights.
Georgian top officials have stated that the country’s victory in the August 2008 war case against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is ‘historic and an enormous victory for the country.’
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.
De facto president of Georgia’s Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region, Anatoly Bibilov, has said that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling on the August 2008 war cases in favour of Georgia was not unexpected. Bibilov claims that the ‘collective West’ is shielding Georgia and encouraging the country to ‘continue armed aggressions.’
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers on Friday “deeply” deplored the continued absence of response of Russian authorities to its earlier appeals for the state to implement the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights concerning the arrest, detention and collective expulsion of Georgian nationals between 2006-2007.