Russia Refuses to pay Euro 10 mln fine for deportation of Georgians
By Gvantsa Gabekhadze
Friday, May 3
Russia has refused to pay 10 million EUR the European Court of Human Rights demanded after the illegal deportation of Georgian from Russia in 2006 under the United National Movement leadership.
Russia had time to pay the fine until May 1, 2019, in a three-month time, as the European Court delivered the verdict on January 31, 2019.
Now the Government of Georgia has demanded the issue of not paying the fine to be discussed by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Council of Europe to force Russia to meet the verdict.
Russian legislators stated shortly after delivering the verdict, that Russia would not have paid the fine.
The European Court of Human Rights stated that Russia must pay from EURO 2,000 to EURO 15,000 to the Georgian nationals who were unlawfully treated in Russia in autumn 2006 when hundreds of Georgian citizens were illegally detained and deported from the country.
The Court affirmed that 14 of the 19 applicants were illegally deported and 13 of them had faced a breach of their liberty and security rights, faced inhumane and degrading treatment and did not have access to an effective remedy.
ECHR stated that Russia must pay Georgia 10,000,000 euros for non-pecuniary damage a group of at least 1,500 Georgian nationals suffered with.
In 2006 more than 4,600 expulsion orders were issued by Russian authorities against Georgian nationals.
More than 2,300 were detained and forcibly expelled and the remaining left the country on their own.
The mass deportation was preceded by the arrest of four Russian officers on charges of espionage by the previous government of Georgia in September 2006. In revenge, later in 2006 large numbers of Georgian nationals were mistreated in Russia.
