MTCHEDLISHVILI v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 20 October 2016 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 894/12 Vera MTCHEDLISHVILI against Georgialodged on 20 December 2011Statement of Facts1.  The applicant, Ms Vera Mtchedlishvili is a Georgian national, who was born in 1959 and is detained in prison no. 5. She is represented before the Court by Ms S. Abuladze, a lawyer practising in Tbilisi.A.  The circumstances of the case2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.3.  By a judgment of 14 February 2011, the Khelvachauri District Court found the applicant guilty of illicit trafficking of pharmaceuticals in a large quantity, in breach of the relevant customs regulations. This criminal offence was qualified, under the relevant criminal law, as a less serious one. The exact quantity of the medications thus trafficked by the applicant was established by a crime detection examination condu …