The European Court of Human Rights in the case of Georgia v. Russia (II) has ruled Russia to pay Georgia 130 million EUR for violations of the European Convention of Human Rights such as killings, torture and arbitrary detention of civilians as well as destruction of their housing during its invasion of 2008.
Although Russia has quit the Council of Europe and withdrawn from the Convention, the judgment of the Grand Chamber examined the issue of just satisfaction (Article 41) in relation to allegations by the Georgian side of administrative practices on the part of the Russian Federation involving various violations of the Convention during the invasion.
The ECHR declared Article 41 of the Convention applicable to the case in respect of the victims of the administrative practice of killing civilians in Georgian villages in the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region and in the "buffer zone", as well as the victims of the burning and looting of houses; the victims of "inhuman and degrading treatment and arbitrary detention of Georgian civilians" by the separatist forces in Tskhinvali between 10 and 27 August 2008.
In addition, the Grand Chamber's judgment also addresses the Georgian prisoners, victims of torture, who were detained in Tskhinvali between 8 and 17 August 2008, as well as internally displaced persons (IDPs) who can't safely return to their homes in Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali.
According to the judgment, the Russian side must pay Tbilisi a total of €129,827,500 within three months.
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