MAMALADZE v. GEORGIA

Published on 14 June 2021 FIFTH SECTIONApplication no. 9487/19Giorgi MAMALADZEagainst Georgialodged on 31 January 2019communicated on 27 May 2021STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicant, Mr Giorgi Mamaladze, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1984 and is detained in Tbilisi.The circumstances of the case2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.3.  Sometime in January 2017 I.M. – a journalist – informed two lawyers that the applicant – an archpriest and director of a medical clinic operating under the authority of the Georgian Orthodox Church, as well as former director (later demoted to deputy director) of the property management service of the Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church (the Patriarchate) – had contacted him seeking “kalium cyanide” (a highly toxic substance, also known as potassium cyanide). I.M. told the lawyers that he be …