MEREBASHVILI AND JIOSHVILI v. GEORGIA

Published on 30 January 2023 FIFTH SECTIONApplication no. 3919/21Merab MEREBASHVILI and Lali JIOSHVILIagainst Georgialodged on 30 December 2020communicated on 11 January 2023SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe application concerns domestic authorities’ alleged failure to conduct an adequate criminal investigation into the circumstances preceding their son’s death, in breach of the procedural obligations under Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention. According to the applicants, there had been credible allegations, supported by various facts, that the victim might have been killed as a result of violent acts committed by private parties – during a fight with other young men, which the applicant’s son had reported himself via an emergency telephone number shortly before his death – and that his dead body had then been placed on a highway with the malicious intent to disguise the homicide as a road-tr …