STUDIO MONITOR AND ZURIASHVILI v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 8 September 2016 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 44920/09STUDIO MONITOR and ZURIASHVILIagainst Georgialodged on 15 August 2009STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  Studio Monitori (“the first applicant”) is a legal entity established under the Georgian law on 14 December 2005. Ms Nino Zuriashvili (“the second applicant”) is a Georgian national who was born in 1968 and lives in Tbilisi. They are represented before the Court by Ms N. Katsitadze, Mr Ph. Leach and Ms J. Evans, lawyers practising in Tbilisi and London.2.  The first applicant is a non-governmental organisation which was established with the aim of protecting human rights and democracy through conducting journalistic investigations. The second applicant is a journalist and one of the founding members of the above-mentioned organisation.3.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows.4.  In …