GEORGIAN MUSLIM RELATIONS AND OTHERS v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 8 July 2019 FIFTH SECTIONApplication no. 24225/19 GEORGIAN MUSLIM RELATIONS and othersagainst Georgialodged on 25 April 2019SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe application concerns the State’s alleged failure to protect the applicants from hate speech and other acts of violence by private parties motivated by their religion and the subsequent failure of the authorities to conduct an effective investigation into the applicants’ allegations.On 1 August 2014 the first applicant was given a right to use property, a plot of land with a building, under a lease agreement. It was planned to open a Muslim boarding school there. Already before that, in June 2014, when the local orthodox population had learnt about the plan, they had started mounting protests against the opening of a Muslim school in the neighbourhood. Between July and November 2014 local residents erected barricades at t …