BOTCHORISHVILI v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 15 September 2014 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 652/10Besarion BOTCHORISHVILIagainst Georgialodged on 7 December 2009STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicant, Mr Besarion Botchorishvili, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1964 and lives in Tbilisi. He is represented before the Court by Mr Z. Khatiashvili and Mr T. Simonishvili, lawyers practising in Tbilisi.2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.A. General background3.  Between early April and late June 2009 thousands of opposition supporters held demonstrations in various parts of Tbilisi, as well as in a few other major cities of the country, on a daily basis, demanding resignation of President M. Saakashvili and his Government. In the light of those ongoing protests, which were often accompanied by confrontation between demonstrators and police forces, the Office of the P …