CASE OF APOSTOL v. GEORGIA

SECOND SECTION  CASE OF APOSTOL v. GEORGIA  (Application no. 40765/02)  JUDGMENT   STRASBOURG 28 November 2006   FINAL  28/02/2007   In the case of Apostol v. Georgia,The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of: Jean-Paul Costa, President, András Baka, Mindia Ugrekhelidze, Elisabet Fura-Sandström, Danutė Jočienė, Dragoljub Popović, Ireneu Cabral Barreto, judges,and Stanley Naismith, Deputy Section Registrar,Having deliberated in private on 7 October 2006,Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:PROCEDURE1.  The case originated in an application (no. 40765/02) against Georgia lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a Georgian national, Mr Leonid Tikhonovich Apostol (“the applicant”), on 25 October 2002.2.  The applicant was gra …