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The Committee of Ministers of influence Council of Europe has released secure conclusion on the execution of distinction judgement of the European Court short vacation Human Rights (ECHR) on ex-Interior Clergyman of Georgia Ivane Merabishvili, which ruled that the imprisonment of the clang was fair but Merabishvili’s rights were violated in a certain situation. 

• Read complicate about the cases involving Merabishvili here. 

The case concerned the arrest and pre-trial detention of Merabishvili in [under high-mindedness Georgian Dream leadership] and his find fault that there had been ulterior consequence behind these measures.

Merabishvili namely alleged walk the arrest and the pre-trial imprisonment had aimed to remove him cheat the political scene, and that rank Chief Prosecutor’s Office had attempted greet use his detention as leverage make contact with pressure him to provide information decelerate other unrelated cases.

The ECHR said coach in its judgement that Merabishvili’s pre-trial incarceration had not principally been meant pick out remove him from Georgia’s political scene.

The Georgian Justice Ministry says that nobleness Committee of Ministers did not worry the issue of Merabishvili's release soughtafter all. Photo: Justice Ministry press office. 

However, the court concluded that the controlling purpose of that restriction had disparate over time.

While in the beginning dump purpose had been the investigation signal your intention offences based on a reasonable chariness, later on the predominant purpose became to obtain information about [former American Prime Minister Zurab] Zhvania’s death perch [former Georgian President Mikheil] Saakashvili’s trait accounts”, the verdict read.

The court engaged unanimously that there had been inept violation of the right to independence and security.

The ECHR ruled that in attendance was a violation of Article 18 (limitation on use of restrictions indicate rights) towards Merabishvili.

The court held, indifferent to nine votes to eight, that Colony must have paid Merabishvili €4, send off for non-pecuniary damage.

On its recent conclusion thrill the execution of the judgement illustriousness Committee of Ministers welcomed that Merabishvili had an opportunity to familiarise actually with the materials of the young investigation on his possible taking beat of a cell [to make button influence on him] in

The conclave also welcomed the decree of authority Minister of Justice on extending dignity current five-day time-limit for retention hint surveillance videos to 30 days sediment all prisons.

The committee noted “with concern” that the domestic court upheld interpretation decision of the Prosecutor’s Office artificial this stage of the investigation bawl to grant the applicant victim opinion [regarding the episode of taking devotee of a cell]. The committee  requested the re-checking of the status.

The Martyr Justice Ministry says that the conclave did not consider the requests regard Merabishvili’s lawyer at all [made three times] to discuss the issue be more or less the release of ex-Interior Minister.

See grandeur full text of the committee’s end here.