Two decisions of the European Court of Human Rights against Georgian state entered into force. The decision on cases "Gorgiladze vs. Georgia" and "Panjikidze vs Georgia" were taken in October by the European Court of Human Rights. The Georgian government did not appeal against the decisions. The decision of the European Court of Human Rights is obligatory for the erred country. The monitoring over the fulfillment of the obligations is undertaken by the Committee of Ministers of the CoE. The Court sentenced the Georgian state to pay out the fine of 5 000 EUR in favor of Gorgiladze and 2 000 EUR in favor of Fanjikidze.
The decisions "Gorgiladze vs Georgia" and "Panjikidze vs Georgia" were taken under the article 3 of ECHR (torture) and article 6 (right to fair trial). The Court found the violation of Article 3 because of the unbecoming conditions of the prisons. The Court found the violation of Article 6 (fair trial) because of the illegitimacy of the court in Georgia. The talks are about the panel of jurors in Georgia and the decisions taken by them. The ECtHR noted that the institution of the panel of jurors was not established in Georgia according to the law. As there was not a law regulating the function of the Court by the non-lawyer jurors. But Georgia as a signatory country of the European Convention of Human Rights is obliged not to violate the norms of ECHR stipulating the fair trial and Court system established according to the law.
Accordingly the Court found that any decision taken by the Panel of Jurors in Georgia is illegal, violates the Article 6 of the ECHR (right for fair trial). And any person whose case was reviewed by this way has a right to demand the reopening of the case.
