OCHIGAVA v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 28 September 2015 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 14142/15Akaki Ochigava against Georgialodged on 11 March 2015STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicant, Mr Akaki Ochigava is a Georgian national who was born in 1966 and lives in Tbilisi. He is represented before the Court by nine lawyers: Ms N. Jomarjidze, Ms T. Abazadze, Ms K. Shubashvili, and Ms T. Dekanosidze, lawyers at the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association in Tbilisi, and also by Ms K. Levin, Ms J. Evans, Ms J. Gavron, Mr. V. Grigoryan, and Mr P. Leach, lawyers at the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre in London.2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.3.  On 2 June 2011 the applicant was arrested on the suspicion of having committed a robbery. On 3 June 2011, as part of his admission procedure to Tbilisi no. 8 prison (“the Gldani prison”), a doctor examined the applicant an …