TBILISI PRAIDI' AND OTHERS v. GEORGIA and 1 other application

Published on 11 July 2022 FIFTH SECTIONApplications nos. 602/22 and 13073/22‘TBILISI PRAIDI’ and Others against Georgiaand Salome NIKOLEISHVILI and Others against Georgialodged on 22 December 2021 and 23 February 2022 respectivelycommunicated on 20 June 2022SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe applications concern alleged homophobic violence on 1 and 5 July 2021 and the applicants’ inability to hold an LGBT pride event.The individual applicants complain, among other incidents, about violent attacks and threats against the LGBT community and individual applicants by ultraconservative groups which held anti-LGBT rallies; violent storming by the latter groups of different offices of non-governmental organisations where the applicants had been sheltering; the authorities’ inability and/or unwillingness to prevent and provide appropriate redress for such violence (among other elements, the applicant …