MILADZE v. GEORGIA

Published on 11 March 2024 FIFTH SECTIONApplication no. 41585/23Irakli MILADZEagainst Georgialodged on 17 November 2023communicated on 22 February 2024SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe application concerns under Article 10 of the Convention the applicant’s conviction for an administrative offence imposed in relation to the manner in which he publicly expressed his opinions.In particular, on 5 December 2022 the applicant, a food delivery courier, uploaded a short video of himself on TikTok, a popular video-hosting system, in which he, by swearing in an obscene manner at the Mayor of Tbilisi and, more generally, at the Tbilisi City Hall staff members and officers of the Ministry of the Interior, expressed his critical views on urban transport policies as well as on the exemption from traffic regulations that, in his opinion, certain law-enforcement agents arbitrarily possessed.On 10 December 2 …