SAAKASHVILI v. GEORGIA and 1 other application

Published on 6 April 2021 FIFTH SECTIONApplications nos. 6232/20 and 22394/20Mikheil SAAKASHVILI against Georgialodged on 27 January and 25 May 2020 respectivelycommunicated on 15 March 2021SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASESThe applications concern under Articles 6, 7 and 18 of the Convention the fairness of two separate sets of criminal proceedings conducted against the applicant, a former President of Georgia.The applicant was elected as President of the country in January 2003, after the United National Movement (“the UNM”), a political party co‑established and led by him, had come to power in November 2003. By the time his second consecutive presidential term expired on 17 November 2013, the UNM, defeated by the political coalition Georgian Dream in the parliamentary election of October 2012, became the main opposition force in the country (for more details, see Merabishvili v. Georgia [GC] …