The applicant, Givi Janiashvili, is a Georgian national who was born in 1962 and lives in Tbilisi. In July 2006 Mr Janiashvili was found guilty of illegally buying and concealing heroin in very large quantities and sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment. The case concerns his complaint about the excessive length of his detention pending trial with regard to the related criminal proceedings brought against him in 2004 and 2005. He also alleges that excessive force was used against him during his arrest at his home in the second set of proceedings in May 2005, which the authorities failed to investigate, and that he was then held in overcrowded cells in two prisons in Tbilisi without adequate medical care for his various psychiatric, hepatic and urological problems. He relies on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment) and Article 5 (right to liberty and security). Lastly, relying on Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life and home), he alleges that the search of his home by investigators and the special forces in May 2005 was not lawful.
(from the official press-release prepared by the Registry Office of the European Court of Human Rights)