TCHOLADZE v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 16 November 2016 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 35852/11Aleksandre TCHOLADZEagainst Georgialodged on 31 May 2011STATEMENT OF FACTSThe applicant, Mr Aleksandre Tcholadze, is a Georgian national who was born in 1980 and is currently detained in Kutaisi. He is represented before the Court by Ms T. Babunashvili, a lawyer practising in Kutaisi.A.  The circumstances of the caseThe facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.By a judgment of 18 March 2010, Tskaltubo District Court found the applicant guilty of aggravated robbery in a group and sentenced him to 11 years’ imprisonment.During the trial at the first-instance court, both the victim and an alleged accomplice of the applicant, A.Z., retracted the statements they had given against the applicant during the investigation. Notably, the victim stated that she had identified the applicant as …