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European court will examine 2 applications against Georgia on Tuesday

October 16, 2006

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
591
13.10.2006
Press release issued by the Registrar
 
FORTHCOMING CHAMBER JUDGMENTS
17 and 19 October 2006
 
The European Court of Human Rights will be notifying in writing 18 Chamber judgments on Tuesday 17 October 2006 and 22 on Thursday 19 October 2006.
 
Press releases and texts of the judgments will be available at 11 a.m. (local time) on the Court’s Internet site (http://www.echr.coe.int).
 
 
Tuesday 17 October 2006
 
Danelia v. Georgia (application no. 68622/01)
The applicant, David Danelia, is a Georgian national who was born in 1973 and lives in Tbilissi.
 
From April 1999 to October 2000 the applicant was working as a guard at the prison hospital in Tbilissi. On the night of 1 October 2000, while he was on duty, 12 convicts escaped. He was charged with serious professional negligence and given a two-year suspended prison sentence in 2001.
 
The applicant complains that he was tortured while in police custody. He relies on Article 3 (prohibition of torture) and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) of the European Convention on Human Rights.
 
Gourguénidzé v. Georgia (no. 71678/01)
The applicant, David Gourguénidzé, is a Georgian national who was born in 1957 and lives in Tbilissi.
 
In 1999 the applicant put up for sale a manuscript by the renowned Georgian writer Konstantiné Gamsakhourdia. Mrs Artchvadzé-Gamsakhourdia, daughter-in-law of the writer and wife of Mr Gamsakhourdia, a former President of Georgia, now deceased, arranged to meet the applicant accompanied by a journalist from the national newspaper Akhali Thaoba. The meeting was followed up by a series of articles and interviews, published with a photograph of the applicant, in which Mrs Artchvadzé-Gamsakhourdia accused him of having stolen the manuscript in question.
 
The applicant complains that the information and his photograph, which were published in the newspaper Akhali Thaoba, together with the decisions of the Georgian courts concerning him, entailed a violation of his right to respect for his private life. He relies on Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life and correspondence) and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy).

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