KOPADZE v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 8 July 2014 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 58228/09Emzar KOPADZEagainst Georgialodged on 9 October 2009STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicant, Mr Emzar Kopadze born in 1980, is a Georgian national and is currently serving a sentence in prison No. 6 establishment in Rustavi. He is represented before the Court by Mr B. Botchorishvili and Mr I. Khatiashvili, lawyers practising in Tbilisi.A.  The circumstances of the case2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.3.  The applicant was serving a prison sentence for his previous conviction in prison No. 7 establishment in Ksani. According to the official version of the events, on 3 March 2009, while the prison guards were conducting a search in one of the cells, a group of inmates, including the applicant, attacked them and a fight erupted between the prisoners and the prison guards. As t …