MIKIASHVILI v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 30 August 2016 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 18865/11Nino MIKIASHVILIagainst Georgialodged on 15 March 2011STATEMENT OF FACTSThe applicant, Ms Nino Mikiashvili, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1972 and lives in Tbilisi. She is represented before the Court by Ms N. Katsitadze, Ms. M. Uberi and Ms T. Abazadze, lawyers practising in Tbilisi.The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.The applicant is a journalist. She closely followed a number of high-profile murder cases, regularly writing newspaper articles on them.On 10 September 2009 she requested the Ministry of Prison to inform her in which custodial institution the convicts in two unrelated high-profile murder cases were serving their prison sentences. That request was conditioned by rumours largely circulated in public by the victims’ families that the convicts had in re …