FIRST SECTION DECISION AS TO THE ADMISSIBILITY OF

Informing the Court that the Tbilisi City Prosecutor’s Office had duly opened on 10 November 2007 a criminal probe into the lawfulness of the police actions during the

The Government submitted that the applicant’s detention from 27 August to 13 September 2002 had been authorised under the order of 26 June 2002 issued under Article 232 of the

On 21 September 2009, following the disclosure process which took place during the appeal proceedings, the applicant lodged a further ground of appeal regarding

As a result, and having regard to the complexity of the case and the severity of the punishment, the applicant concluded that he had been unable duly to exercise his rights

The applicant refers to the facts that on 11 and 16 October 1997 his lawyers submitted detailed representations to the Secretary of State urging him not to publish the Report as he