Judgment Aghdgomelashvili and Japaridze v. Georgia - police abuse in raid on LGBT office
(World News Austria)

issued by the Registrar of the Court ECHR 279 (2020) 08.10.2020 Police abuse in a raid on LGBT office in Tbilisi breached applicants` human dignity The case Aghdgomelashvili and Japaridze v. Georgia(application no. 7224/11) concerned a police raid on the office of a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organisation in Tbilisi. The applicants, who worked at the organisation, complained that the police had insulted and threatened them, and put them through humiliating strip-searches. In today`s Chamberjudgment1in the case the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been violations of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment)of the European Convention...