N.M. AND OTHERS v. GEORGIA

Published on 11 March 2024 FIFTH SECTIONApplication no. 16764/23N.M. and Others against Georgialodged on 13 April 2023communicated on 20 February 2024SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe application concerns various complaints raised under Articles 3 and 8 of the Convention relating to the applicants’ allegations of ill-treatment and abuse in a closed-type boarding school run by the Georgian Orthodox Church in Ninotsminda (“Ninotsminda Boarding School”). On various dates between 2016 and 2021 four separate sets of criminal proceedings were initiated into the allegations of child abuse including sexual violence in the Ninotsminda Boarding School. The applicants’ allegations have been investigated under Article 263 of the Criminal Code (the criminal offence of violence) as a part of a third criminal case opened on 11 December 2020. According to the case file, the applicants were refused victim st …