Announcing Strasbourg Court judgment over mass deportation of Georgian nationals from Russia in 2006 [Video]

On January 31, The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the Russian Federation has to pay 10 million Euros in compensation for damages in connection with mass deportation of Georgian nationals from Russia in 2006. The judgment was adopted by sixteen votes to one.

on July 3, 2014, the dispute in European Court of Human Rights ended with the victory of Georgia and was followed by procedures related to the payment of compensation to the victims.

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has announced the Judgment concerning Georgian citizens’ deportation from Russia. According to the decision, Russia has to pay Georgia 10,000,000 euros (EUR) in respect of non-pecuniary damage suffered by a group of at least 1,500 Georgian nationals. That amount is to be distributed to the individual victims by paying EUR 2,000 to the Georgian nationals who had been victims only of a violation of Article 4 of Protocol No. 4 (collective expulsion), and EUR 10,000 to EUR 15,000 to those among them who had also been victims of a violation of Article 5 § 1 (unlawful deprivation of liberty) and Article 3 (inhuman and degrading conditions of detention) of the European Convention on Human Rights, taking into account the length of their respective periods of detention.