Saghinadze and Others v. Georgia

Information Note on the Court’s case-law No. 130May 2010Saghinadze and Others v. Georgia - 18768/05Judgment 27.5.2010 [Section II]Article 1 of Protocol No. 1Article 1 para. 1 of Protocol No. 1Peaceful enjoyment of possessionsPossessionsEviction of an internally displaced person from State-owned accommodation after ten years’ uninterrupted good-faith occupation: violation Facts – The applicants were internally displaced persons (IDPs) who had fled Abkhazia (Georgia) in 1993, abandoning their homes and property there following the armed conflict of 1992-93. In 1994 the first applicant, a high-ranking official in the Abkhazian Ministry of the Interior, was offered the post of Head of the Investigative Department within the Georgian Ministry of the Interior. He and his family were subsequently settled in a cottage belonging to the Ministry that was intended to provide accommodation to exiled …