GABUNIA AND OTHERS v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 14 March 2017 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 37276/05Vakhtang GABUNIA and othersagainst Georgialodged on 11 September 2005STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  A list of the applicants is set out in the appendix. They are all represented before the Court by Ms Inga Geliashvili and Mr A. Carbonneau, lawyers practising in Tbilisi.A.  The circumstances of the case2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows.1.  Violent incident of 28 September 20013.  This part of the application concerns applicants Gabunia, Khutsishvili, Papiashvili, and Chkhikvadze (listed in the appendix as nos. 1-4). On August 7 2001 representatives of two major organisations of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Georgia wrote to the governor of Marneuli informing him about the annual convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses that was to be held in the city in September 2001. They asked him to ensu …