TABUYEVA AND OTHERS v. GEORGIA

Published on 26 February 2024 SECOND SECTIONApplication no. 40279/11Roza Akhmatovna TABUYEVA and Othersagainst Georgialodged on 23 June 2011communicated on 6 February 2024SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe application concerns the arrest and either subsequent disappearance or a period of acknowledged detention of three prisoners of war (hereinafter “the PoWs”) – R. Ikayev, who was the husband and son of, respectively, the first and second applicants, and S. Lokhov and A. Bazayev, who are the third and fourth applicants in the present case (see the appendix). The PoWs were Russian nationals of Ossetian origin who resided in South Ossetia (a region of Georgia which is currently outside the de facto control of the Georgian Government).R. Ikayev and the third and fourth applicants were arrested by the Georgian armed forces near Tskhinvali on 8 and 9 August 2008, in the first days of the internati …