KHUTSISHVILI v. GEORGIA

Published on 11 December 2023 FIFTH SECTIONApplication no. 49873/22Marina KHUTSISHVILIagainst Georgialodged on 17 October 2022communicated on 20 November 2023SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe application concerns the alleged unlawfulness of the applicant’s involuntary confinement in a psychiatric hospital. The Tbilisi Court of Appeal declared the initial decision on her confinement unlawful and ordered the applicant’s immediate discharge. She did not, however, receive any compensation as the civil courts conducted their own assessment of the circumstances of the confinement and refused her claim.The applicant alleges that her confinement and forced psychiatric treatment in a psychiatric hospital caused her severe mental suffering amounting to inhuman and degrading treatment in violation of Article 3 of the Convention taken separately or in conjunction with Article 14. She further complains u …