CHKOTUA AND ARKANIA v. GEORGIA

THIRD SECTIONApplication no. 60909/08Tengiz CHKOTUA and Eliso ARKANIAagainst Georgialodged on 4 September 2008STATEMENT OF FACTS 1. The first applicant, Mr Tengiz Chkotua, was a Georgian national, who was born in 1964 and died in 2009 (see paragraph 5 below). The second applicant, Mrs Eliso Arkania, his wife, is similarly a Georgian national born in 1964. She is represented before the Court by Ms Rusudan Korchilava, a lawyer practising in Tbilisi.2. On 16 November 2006 the first applicant was arrested in relation to a drug offence. Allegedly, the police subjected him to ill-treatment upon the arrest, but he never filed a criminal complaint in that respect.3. On 28 March 2007 the Zugdidi District Court convicted the first applicant, who had been placed in pre-trial detention since his arrest, of drug trafficking. The conviction was based on the results of a search of the applicant’s home …