Tkhelidze v Georgia concerns the femicide of M.T., a university professor, by her ex-husband L.M. after a prolonged period of domestic violence. Despite more than eleven reports of violence and threats made to the police by M.T. and her relatives in a six-month period, not a single protective measure was put in place.

This case is representative of the systemic discrimination by the law enforcement authorities in Georgia in failing to adequately respond to victims of domestic violence.

EHRAC brought the case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in collaboration with Union Sapari on behalf of M.T.’s mother.

The ECtHR embedded its consideration of discrimination into right to life complaints for the first time in a domestic violence case, and was robust in its criticism of the authorities’ ‘major failings’, representing a highly progressive judgment by the Court.

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Between 2006-2009, the Tbilisi-based Inclusive Foundation (IF) was a central meeting point for Georgia’s queer community.

In December 2009, police raided the IF’s offices, which they shared with the Women’s Initiatives Supporting Group (WISG), subjecting members to homophobic and transphobic abuse.

Those responsible have still not been brought to justice.

More information on the case Aghdgomelashvili and Japaridze v Georgia is available here.

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