KVIRIKASHVILI v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 17 April 2018 FIFTH SECTIONApplication no. 34720/16Paata KVIRIKASHVILIagainst Georgialodged on 27 May 2016STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicant Mr. Paata Kvirikashvili, was born in 1961. He is a Georgian national, who lives in Tbilisi and works as a senior physician at an emergency medical centre. He is represented before the Court by Ms T. Abazadze and Ms N. Jomarjidze, lawyers at the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (“GYLA”) in Tbilisi, and also by Ms J. Evans, Ms. J. Gavron, Mr P. Leach, Ms K. Levin and Ms J. Sawyer, lawyers at the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre in London.A.  The circumstances of the case2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.1.  The applicant’s arrest and his alleged ill-treatment3.  On the evening of 31 August 2014, at around 9 p.m., the applicant had stopped his car at a petrol station in Tbili …