PERADZE AND OTHERS v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 14 September 2016 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 5631/16Natalia PERADZE and othersagainst Georgialodged on 12 January 2016STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  A list of the applicants is set out in the appendix. They are all Georgian nationals, live in Tbilisi and are represented before the Court by Ms T. Abazadze, Ms T. Dekanosidze, Ms K. Shubashvili and Ms N. Jomarjidze, lawyers practising in Tbilisi.2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows.A.  The circumstances of the case1.  Background3.  In 2014 the Georgian Co-Investment Fund (“the GSF”), a private equity fund established in 2013 for the purpose of attracting large private investments into Georgia, revealed a plan to build a complex of four luxury hotels and several business centres on a hill overlooking the historical part of Tbilisi. According to the project, various districts in the …