GEGENAVA AND OTHERS v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 12 March 2015 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 65128/10 Vazha GEGENAVA and others against Georgia lodged on 27 October 2010STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicants are all Georgia nationals (see the appendix). Their application is based on various incidents of alleged assault and ill-treatment to which all were subjected on various dates in prison in the period between September 2006 and October 2011. The first and third applicants were released from prison by virtue of an Amnesty Act in February and January 2013 respectively. The second applicant was released upon termination of his prison sentence in February 2012.2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicants and according to the case-file, may be summarised as follows.A.  The various alleged incidents of the applicants’ ill-treatment1.  The applicants’ placement in a punishment cell in September 2006, subsequent i …