KHARADZE v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 24 August 2015 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 19419/12Davit KHARADZEagainst Georgialodged on 21 March 2012STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicant, Mr Davit Kharadze, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1969 and lives in Tbilisi. He is represented before the Court by Ms T. Mikeladze, a lawyer practising in Tbilisi.A.  The circumstances of the case2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.3.  The applicant starting suffering from a mental disorder since 1987. In 1999 he was diagnosed with chronic paranoid schizophrenia and was formally declared a handicapped person of the second category.4.  On 17 June 2005 Rustavi 2, a private television station with the countrywide coverage, broadcast, as part of its daily television police chronicles Patrol, a video report concerning an episode of purported cattle theft which had occurred earli …