GIORGI MAZANASHVILI v. GEORGIA

THIRD SECTIONApplication no. 19882/07Giorgi MAZANASHVILI against Georgialodged on 11 May 2007STATEMENT OF FACTS The applicant, Mr Giorgi Mazanashvili, is a Georgian national who was born in 1981 and is currently serving a prison sentence in Rustavi no. 6 Prison. He is represented before the Court by Mr I. Sosiashvili and Mr. M. Nozadze, lawyers practising in Tbilisi.A.  The circumstances of the caseThe facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarized as follows.1.  The applicant’s arrest and criminal proceedings conducted against himOn 15 September 2005 the applicant was arrested on suspicion of unlawful purchase and possession of drugs. According to the personal search record a plastic bag containing five sachets of a brownish substance and one sachet of a white substance were found in the back right pocket of his trousers. The body search was conducted on the outskir …