Assanidze v. Georgia (dec.)

Information Note on the Court’s case-law No. 47November 2002Assanidze v. Georgia (dec.) - 71503/01Decision 12.11.2002 [Section II]Article 5Article 5-1Lawful arrest or detentionContinued detention ordered by authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Ajaria despite pardon by the President of Georgia in a first case and acquittal by the Georgian central courts in a subsequent case: admissibleIn November 1994, the applicant was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment by the judicial authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Adjaria, a republic forming part of Georgia.  By order of October 1999, the President of the Georgian Republic pardoned the applicant and suspended the two years of the sentence which remained to be served. In November 1999, the Supreme Court of the Autonomous Republic of Adjaria declared the presidential order illegal. That judgment was set aside by the Supreme Court of G …