DARSALIA v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 4 June 2015 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 3693/13Makhare DARSALIAagainst Georgialodged on 9 January 2013STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicant, Mr Makhare Darsalia, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1978 and is detained in Tbilisi. He is represented before the Court by Mr T. Gogsadze, a lawyer practising in Tbilisi.2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.3.  On the night of 7 May 2011, after being summoned, the applicant appeared in the Gldani regional police station in Tbilisi to be examined as a witness in relation to the murder of his cousin, D. According to the applicant, at the police station he was subjected to verbal and physical abuse in order to make him confess that he had murdered D. Particularly, he claims that he was stripped and threatened to be raped; the investigator hit him with an ashtray; his request for …