HAKOBYAN v. GEORGIA - 64300/16 (Judgment : Article 2 - Right to life : Fifth Section Committee)

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

��������� Carlo Ranzoni , President , ��������� Lado Chanturia, ��������� Mar�a El�segui , judges , and Martina Keller, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 64300/16) against Georgia lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) on 1 October 2016 by a Russian national, Mr Myasnik Hakobyan (�the applicant�), who was born in 1935 and lives in Yerevan and who was represented by Ms H. Grigoryan, a lawyer practising in Yerevan;

the decision to give notice of the complaints under Articles 2 and 13 of the Convention to the Georgian Government (�the Government�), represented by their Agent, Mr B. Dzamashvili, of the Ministry of Justice, and to declare the remainder of the application inadmissible;

1.  The present application concerns the alleged failure of the authorities to carry out an effective criminal investigation into the death of the applicant�s son, in alleged breach of Articles 2 and 13 of the Convention.