KVIRIKASHVILI v. GEORGIA

Published on 8 December 2025 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 4368/23Neli KVIRIKASHVILIagainst Georgialodged on 13 January 2023communicated on 21 November 2025SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe application concerns the suicide committed by the applicant’s son in November 2017, which occurred one week after he had been questioned at a police station, and the alleged ineffectiveness of the related criminal investigation. The applicant alleges that, during that questioning, her son was subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment which caused him mental anguish and ultimately led him to take his own life. She further complains that the main investigative steps were carried out by officers from the same police station where the alleged perpetrators served, and that the prosecuting authorities, to whom the case was subsequently assigned, failed to remedy this procedural defect or to pursue certain ob …