The “Young Barristers” – The Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Georgia – Giorgi Papuashvili lives in illegally deprived property

2 October, 2014

According to the published research of the “Young Barristers”, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Georgia - Giorgi Papuashvili did not answer 12 public questions, which is connected to the legal and factual issues of living in the illegally deprived house in Adjara after the "Rose Revolution".

The issue is related to the case, the history of which became known to broad society first time.  In particular, the monitoring reports the case of the person turned out to be among those who were deprived of property against their will, in 2004.

At that time, law enforcement authorities, the judicial system and administrative authorities agreed on the use of selective justice, in order to become visible the matter of judgment and prosecution of public officials in Adjara.

The history is even more complicated by the fact that the former president Mikheil Saakashvili transferred the deprived property of Roland Bladadze to the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Georgia - Giorgi Papuashvili who until now lives in the house of Roland Bladadze with his family. Research best delivers the factual and legal side of the case, which is a continuation of prominent cases of the deprived properties in Georgia, in 2003-2012.

The objective investigation conducted on the case after October 1, 2012, confirmed that regarding Roland Bladadze in August 2004, the criminal case on charges of failure to fulfill his duties, notice the property unlawfully and unjustifiably, and then seize was baseless and artificially created by unsupported evidence. Therefore, Roland Bladadze, in order to return the confiscated property continues the legal dispute and does not preclude further proceedings in the European Court of Human Rights.

Thorough study of the mentioned case by the organization made distinct that circumstances, considered as disputable issues both in the direction of criminal and civil law, the ignore of which has violated the most important constitutional right of the citizen – the right to a fair trial, while the state institutions instead of protection of the citizen and the impartial justice, have created all the conditions, so that the rule of law change by subjective decisions of the authors of politics.

The organization in the framework of implemented monitoring has already addressed the recommendations to the executive, legislative and judicial authorities. English version of the research has already been sent to the diplomatic representatives in Georgia, to the Constitutional Courts of 20 European countries, to the Venice Commission and international organizations.

The “Young Barristers” started the work on the research in February 2014. Monitoring will provide the reader with a detailed factual and legal aspect of the case, which reflects current status of public official participated in the case and the position of the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Georgia –Giorgi Papuashvili.



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