Y v. GEORGIA

FIFTH SECTIONDECISIONApplication no. 44331/10Yagainst Georgia The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 18 September 2018 as a Committee composed of: André Potocki, President, Mārtiņš Mits, Lado Chanturia, judges,and Milan Blaško, Deputy Section Registrar,Having regard to the above application lodged on 26 July 2010,Having deliberated, decides as follows:FACTS AND PROCEDURE1.  The applicant, Y, is a Georgian national. The President granted the applicant’s request for his identity not to be disclosed to the public (Rule 47 § 4). He was represented before the Court by Mr A. Shoshikelashvili, a lawyer practising in Tbilisi.2.  The application mainly concerned the alleged absence of medical care for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) of the applicant, who had been serving a prison sentence from 21 July 2008; he had contracted HIV several years before his imprisonment. On …