PARJIANI v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 26 May 2014 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 57047/08Kakha PARJIANI against Georgialodged on 24 July 2008STATEMENT OF FACTS     The applicant, Mr Kakha Parjiani, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1978 and lives in the village of Latali. He is represented before the Court by Ms. N. Katsitadze and Ms. Vanda Jijelava, lawyers practising in Tbilisi.A.  The circumstances of the case     The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows. 1. The incident of 22 October 2005 and the applicant’s conviction      On 21 October 2005 the Special Police Forces (SPF) of the Ministry of the Interior, together with local police officers of the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, arranged an ambush nearby the town of Mestia to apprehend certain suspects. The police forces were split in two joint groups of SPF and local police officers – one group being located …