Today European Court of Human Rights holds a hearing under inter-state application lodged by Georgia against Russia in connection to the August, 2008 war.
Georgia appealed the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights on August 11, 2008, a day before the ceasefire agreement was signed with Russia and the final, formal inter-state application was filed in February, 2009 alleging that Russian military forces and separatist forces under their control carried out indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks against civilians and their property in breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Georgian Republic accuses Russia Federation in breaching eight articles of the European Convention on Human Rights, involving right to life; prohibition of torture and of inhuman or degrading treatment; right to liberty and security; right to respect for private and family life; right to an effective remedy; protection of property; right to education and freedom of movement.
Russia dismisses allegations as unjustified and not confirmed by "admissible evidence". Russia claims that its military forces did not initiated attacks but defended the civilian population of South Ossetia against Georgian offensive.
This is a second inter-state application lodged by Georgia against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights.

The first case, filed in 2007 in connection to deportation of hundreds of ethnic Georgians by Russia following a spy row between the two countries, has already been found by ECHR as admissible and the case is currently under deliberation by the court on its merits.
The Strasbourg-based court has now to decide whether the Georgia's second, August war case is admissible or not to be heard on merits.
Georgia also had a separate application lodged before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Russia related to the August war. ICJ ruled in April that it had no jurisdiction to hear the case on merits, citing that not all the remedies to address the dispute were exhausted before referring the case directly to ICJ.