GEORGIAN YOUNG LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION AND OTHERS v. GEORGIA (NO. 2)

Published on 13 April 2026 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 15763/25 GEORGIAN YOUNG LAWYERS’ ASSOCIATION and OTHERSagainst Georgialodged on 15 August 2025communicated on 26 March 2026SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe application has been lodged by three civil society organisations (applicants nos. 1-3 in the appendix below) and three individual applicants (“the individual applicants”, applicants nos. 4-6), who serve as the managing directors of the first three organisations. The case concerns alleged interference with the applicants’ rights under Articles 8, 10 and 11 of the Convention, taken alone and in conjunction with Articles 13, 14 and 18, following the adoption of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (“the Georgian FARA”).On 24 February 2025 a draft of the Georgian FARA was introduced in Parliament. The official Explanatory Note accompanying the draft stated that the law was largely a ver …