ABULADZE v. ESTONIA - 12928/20 (Judgment : Article 5 - Right to liberty and security : Third Section Committee)

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:

��������� Georgios A. Serghides , President , ��������� Jolien Schukking, ��������� Darian Pavli , judges , and Olga Chernishova, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 12928/20) against the Republic of Estonia lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) on 28 February 2020 by an Estonian national, Mr Georgi Abuladze, born in 1988 and living in Tallinn (�the applicant�), who was represented by Mr M. Tammann, a lawyer practising in P�rnu;

the decision to give notice of the application to the Estonian Government (�the Government�), represented initially by their Agent, Ms M. Kuurberg, Representative of Estonia to the European Court of Human Rights, and subsequently by Mr T. Kolk, her successor in that office;

1.  The case concerns the applicant�s allegations of excessive length of his pre-trial detention, which lasted approximately four and half years, in breach of Article 5 � 3.