SUPREME RELIGIOUS ADMINISTRATION OF MUSLIMS OF ALL GEORGIA v. GEORGIA

Published on 11 March 2024 FIFTH SECTIONApplication no. 42789/23SUPREME RELIGIOUS ADMINISTRATION OF MUSLIMS OF ALL GEORGIAagainst Georgialodged on 30 November 2023communicated on 20 February 2024SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe application concerns under Article 1 of Protocol No. 12 a differential treatment of two religious organisations, one of them forming part of the Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia (hereinafter “the Orthodox Church”) and the other representing the Muslim community living in the country.On 19 February 2020 the applicant association, which is an independent religious centre uniting various religious institutions of Muslims living in Georgia, brought a court action against the Marneuli City Council, complaining that there was a pattern of that local authority distributing the relevant annual State subsidies exclusively to the Marneuli Diocese, which was a …