Tuskia and Others v. Georgia

Information Note on the Court’s case-law 222October 2018Tuskia and Others v. Georgia - 14237/07Judgment 11.10.2018 [Section V]Article 11Article 11-1Freedom of peaceful assemblyUniversity professors removed by police and fined following unauthorised entry into Rector’s office during protest: no violationFacts – The nine applicants, professors working at Tbilisi State University, opposed university reforms. In July 2006 an authorised meeting took place in the Grand Hall of the main University building. At that meeting one of the applicants was “elected” as the new Rector of the University. Thereafter, a group of about twenty people, including the applicants, forced their way into the office of the acting Rector and demanded his resignation. They were subsequently removed from his office by the police and found guilty of administrative offences. Law – Article 11 read in the light of Article …