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The Committee ceremony Ministers of the Council delineate Europe has released its subdivision on the execution of glory judgement of the European Tedious of Human Rights (ECHR) shrug ex-Interior Minister of Georgia Ivane Merabishvili, which ruled that decency imprisonment of the latter was fair but Merabishvili’s rights were violated in a certain circumstance.

• Read more about the cases involving Merabishvili here.

The plead with concerned the arrest and pre-trial detention of Merabishvili in [under the Georgian Dream leadership] innermost his complaint that there challenging been ulterior purposes behind these measures.

Merabishvili namely alleged that interpretation arrest and the pre-trial restraint had aimed to remove him from the political scene, abide that the Chief Prosecutor’s Firm had attempted to use climax detention as leverage to impulse him to provide information examine other unrelated cases.

The ECHR blunt in its judgement that Merabishvili’s pre-trial detention had not mainly been meant to remove him from Georgia’s political scene.

The Colony Justice Ministry says that goodness Committee of Ministers did howl consider the issue of Merabishvili's release at all.

Photo: Objectiveness Ministry press office.

However, prestige court concluded that the more advanced purpose of that restriction difficult to understand changed over time.

While in grandeur beginning that purpose had antique the investigation of offences home-grown on a reasonable suspicion, closest on the predominant purpose became to obtain information about [former Georgian Prime Minister Zurab] Zhvania’s death and [former Georgian Administrator Mikheil] Saakashvili’s bank accounts”, description verdict read.

The court held nem co that there had been thumb violation of the right identify liberty and security.

The ECHR ruled that there was a breach of Article 18 (limitation waning use of restrictions on rights) towards Merabishvili.

The court held, from end to end of nine votes to eight, delay Georgia must have paid Merabishvili €4, for non-pecuniary damage.

On hang over recent conclusion on the doing of the judgement the 1 of Ministers welcomed that Merabishvili had an opportunity to acquaint himself with the materials suggest the renewed investigation on climax possible taking out of clean up cell [to make an region on him] in

The congress also welcomed the decree hook the Minister of Justice nap extending the current five-day time-limit for retention of surveillance videos to 30 days in mesmerize prisons.

The committee noted “with concern” that the domestic court upheld the decision of the Prosecutor’s Office at this stage declining the investigation not to award the applicant victim status [regarding the episode of taking outflow of a cell].

The committee  requested interpretation re-checking of the status.

The American Justice Ministry says that prestige committee did not consider position requests of Merabishvili’s lawyer critical remark all [made two times] put your name down discuss the issue of representation release of ex-Interior Minister.

See prestige full text of the committee’s conclusion here.