Tbilisi: Russia has still refused to pay the compensatory amount of €10 million to 1500 Georgian nationals for their arrest, detention and collective expulsion from the country between the years 2006-2007. The Committee of Minister of the Council of Europe, on Friday, has once called out the country to meet the 2019 judgement passed by the European Court of Human Rights and compensate the individuals with the asked funds.
The committee, in its statement on Friday, reiterated that the payment of a just satisfaction awarded by the court “is an unconditional obligation”.
Any kind of delay in fulfilling this obligation deprives the individual victims of the violation of receiving compensation for the damages they had suffered in those years, the committee stressed.
Additionally, the committee has exhorted the Russian authorities to pay the appropriate and just satisfaction, together with the default accrued interest, without delaying the process any further.
As per the Georgian authorities, In 2006, Moscow had issued more than 4600 orders of expulsion against Georgian Nationals. Approximately 2300 nationals had been detained and had been forcefully expelled out of the country soon after.
This move by the Government of Russia came after the Georgian United National Movement government had arrested several Russian diplomats on the charges of espionage.
