Judgment on Just satisfaction in an inter-State case
In the case of Georgia v. Russia (IV) the Court ruled on the question of just satisfaction (Article 41) and awarded in total 253,018,000 euros in respect of non-pecuniary damage suffered by more than 29,000 victims of that pattern or system of violations, for which Russia had been found responsible in the 2024 judgment.
The case concerned the human-rights toll caused by the hardening of boundary lines after the 2008 conflict between the two States. In particular the armed conflict had led to a process, which had started in 2009 and was known as “borderisation”, blocking people from crossing the administrative boundary lines freely between Georgian-controlled territory and the Russian-backed breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
In its judgment of 9 April 2024 the Court found that there had been a pattern or system of violations of the Convention by Russia: including excessive use of force; ill-treatment; unlawful detention; unlawful restrictions on day-to-day movement across the administrative boundary line and on access to homes, land and families; and, denial of the right to education in Georgian.