UGULAVA v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 28 September 2015 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 5432/15Giorgi UGULAVAagainst Georgialodged on 27 December 2014STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicant, Mr Giorgi Ugulava, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1975 and is in detention in Tbilisi. He is represented before the Court by Mr O. Kakhidze and Mr P. Leach, lawyers practising in Tbilisi and London respectively.2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.A.  The circumstances of the case1.  Background information3.  The applicant is one of the leaders of the United National Movement (“the UNM”), a political party which ran the country between November 2003 and October 2012. The applicant was first appointed as mayor of Tbilisi in 2005 and then elected to the post in 2010. In October 2012 the Georgian Dream coalition won parliamentary elections and formed a new government. The …