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Amendment No. 12 | Doc. 13863 | 30 September 2015
Abuse of pretrial detention in States Parties to the European Convention on Human Rights
In the draft resolution, paragraph 11.5, replace the words "in Georgia", with the following words:
"in cases of UNM leaders Mr Ugulava and Mr Akhalaia in Georgia. In the case of Mr Ugulava, the Constitutional Court of Georgia ruled his 15 month pre-trial detention term was anti-constitutional and illegal".
Explanatory note
Mr Ugulava, UMN leader, was re-arrested 24 hours after his release after one of the cases against him was accelerated, despite the constitutional court ruling that his extended pre-trial detention was illegal. The chairman of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee called this a "violation of the EU-Georgia Association Agreement".