MANUKIAN v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 2 April 2015 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 2146/10Aleksandre MANUKIANagainst Georgialodged on 1 September 2009STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicant, Mr Aleksandre Manukian, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1965 and leaves in Tbilisi. He is represented before the Court by Mr L. Tchintcharauli, a lawyer practising in Tbilisi. The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.2.  At the material time the applicant was serving a prison sentence for various offences in Rustavi no. 6 Prison. On 18 January 2008 he was transferred to a prison hospital in order to have an X-ray of his eye. While there he had a verbal altercation with one of the doctors, following which he was allegedly severely beaten by the head and the deputy head of the prison hospital, A.M. and G.B. respectively, as well as by several prison officers, including A.P. Immedi …