ЕСПЧ признал нарушение прав гражданки Грузии из-за пятилетнего застоя в судебном процессе

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on September 8, 2026, ruled in the case of Nadashvili v. Georgia that Georgia violated Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, concerning the right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time. Nadashvili was represented by lawyer Nestan Londaridze. The case concerned a civil lawsuit filed during the COVID-19 pandemic that remained pending before Batumi City Court for nearly five years without substantive progress. The dispute dates back to August 2020, when Georgian citizen Irine Nadashvili was placed in a quarantine hotel after returning from Turkey. The following day, she was reportedly transferred to a psychiatric hospital after allegedly refusing to undergo a nasal PCR test. She later claimed that she was confined to a room, deprived of her mobile phone and contact with the outside world, and forced to undergo testing and take psychotropic medication. In April 2021, Nadashvili filed a civil lawsuit against the Ministry of Health, seeking compensation for unlawful detention and degrading treatment at the psychiatric facility. Although the court accepted the case within days and granted a request to obtain video evidence, the proceedings remained stalled for years. The case was transferred to a new judge in March 2022 and subsequently reassigned again. The ECHR rejected the Georgian government’s arguments that the case was complex and that delays had been caused by the pandemic and internal court reorganisation. The court noted that the proceedings had remained completely inactive for four years and eight months. The ECHR unanimously found a violation of Nadashvili’s right to have her case heard within a reasonable time and ordered Georgia to pay her €1,500 in non-pecuniary damages within three months.