Ochigava v. Georgia

Legal summaryFebruary 2023Ochigava v. Georgia - 14142/15Judgment 16.2.2023 [Section V]Article 3Degrading treatmentInhuman treatmentTortureEffective investigationApplicant’s repeated ill-treatment by prison officers as part of systematic and systemic abuse of inmates and ineffective investigation thereof: violationFacts – The applicant was a prisoner at Tbilisi no. 8 prison (“the Gldani prison”). At the time of his admission, the doctor who examined him noted in his medical file that he had no injuries. Just over two years later, footage of repeated acts of ill-treatment of inmates at different prison establishments, including Gldani prison, were disseminated in the Georgian media. The applicant filed a detailed criminal complaint of repeated acts of ill-treatment by eleven identifiable prison officers. As a result of the ill-treatment, the applicant sustained serious injuries, including …