MEGRELISHVILI v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 21 January 2016 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 30364/09Merab MEGRELISHVILIagainst Georgialodged on 18 May 2009STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicant, Mr Merab Megrelishvili, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1961 and is detained 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. A. The circumstances of the case 3.  On 3 July 2007 the applicant, as he was driving his car in Tbilisi, was stopped by a team of officers of the Special Operative Department of the Ministry of Interior (“the SOD …