BATIASHVILEBI v. GEORGIA and one other application

Communicated on 1 December 2014 FOURTH SECTIONApplications nos. 75737/11 and 2204/12Mariam BATIASHVILI and Irina BATIASHVILI-GELASHVILI against Georgiaand Lasha CHKHARTISHVILI against Georgia (see list appended)STATEMENT OF FACTS 1.  A list of the applicants is set out in the appendix. They are all Georgian nationals.2.  The facts of the cases, as submitted by them, may be summarised as follows.3.  All three applicants were arrested by the police at around 5 p.m. on 5 June 2011 in the centre of Tbilisi, nearby the building of Parliament of Georgia at the moment when they joined a peaceful demonstration. That demonstration had been planned by a limited number of young opposition activists, including the second and third applicants, who wished to denounce publicly the allegedly excessive use of force by the police during dispersal of another, larger manifestation of opposition forces which …