ABZIANIDZE v. GEORGIA

FOURTH SECTIONDECISIONApplication no. 23715/09Gocha ABZIANIDZEagainst GeorgiaThe European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 27 May 2014 as a Committee composed of: Päivi Hirvelä, President, Nona Tsotsoria, Faris Vehabović, judges,and Fatoş Aracı, Deputy Section Registrar,Having regard to the above application lodged on 24 March 2009,Having regard to the declaration submitted by the respondent Government on 17 February 2014 requesting the Court to strike the application out of the list of cases and the applicant’s reply to this declaration,Having deliberated, decides as follows:FACTS AND PROCEDURE1.  The applicant, Mr Gocha Abzianidze, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1968. He was represented before the Court by Ms S. Abuladze, a lawyer practising in Tbilisi. The Georgian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr Levan Meskhoradze, of the Mi …