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issued by the Registrar of the Court   ECHR 050 (2020)   06.02.2020   Judgments and decisions of 6 February 2020   The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing eight judgments1 and 55   decisions2:   one Chamber judgment is summarised below; a separate press release has been issued for one   other Chamber judgment in the case of Felloni v. Italy (application no. 44221/14);   six Committee judgments, concerning issues which have already been submitted to the Court,   including excessive length of proceedings, and the 55 decisions, can be consulted on Hudoc and do   not appear in this press release.   The judgment below is available only in English.   Sakvarelidze v. Georgia (application no. 40394/10)   The applicant, Mariam Sakvarelidze, is a Georgian national who was born in 1949 and lives in Tbilisi.   The case concerned the death of her son and sister in 2003 when an armoured military vehicle   (AMV) hit their car.   The applicant and members of her family were driving along a street in Tbilisi in November 2003, at   a time of widespread protests known as the Rose Revolution, when their car was hit by an armoured   military vehicle driven by either a law-enforcement or military officer. The applicant’s son and her   sister were killed, while the applicant and her nephews were injured.   The Ministry of Defence, the Interior Ministry and the Tbilisi City Public Prosecutor’s Office   investigated the case in turn over the following years and it was closed and resumed several times.   In 2010 the Prosecutor’s Office informed her that despite investigatory measures it had been   impossible to establish with certainty what had happened during the accident. The Prosecutor’s   Office closed the case definitively in March 2017 owing to the expiry of the statute of limitation. The   applicant repeatedly enquired about the course of the various investigations, appealed against   decisions to close it and made complaints that it was ineffective.   Relying in essence on Article 2 (right to life) of the European Convention on Human Rights,   Ms Sakvarelidze complained that the Georgian State had been responsible for the traffic accident   which had killed her son and sister and that the subsequent criminal investigation had been   ineffective.   Violation of Article 2 (investigation)   Just satisfaction: 25,000 euros (EUR) (non-pecuniary damage)   Under Articles 43 and 44 of the Convention, Chamber judgments are not final. During the three-month period following a Chamber   judgment’s delivery, any party may request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber of the Court. If such a request is made, a   panel of five judges considers whether the case deserves further examination. In that event, the Grand Chamber will hear the case and   deliver a final judgment. If the referral request is refused, the Chamber judgment will become final on that day. Under Article 28 of the   Convention, judgments delivered by a Committee are final.   Once a judgment becomes final, it is transmitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe for supervision of its execution.   Further information about the execution process can be found here: www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution   Inadmissibility and strike-out decisions are final.   This press release is a document produced by the Registry. It does not bind the Court. Decisions,   judgments and further information about the Court can be found on www.echr.coe.int. To receive   the Court’s press releases, please subscribe here: www.echr.coe.int/RSS/en or follow us on Twitter   ECHR_CEDH.   Press contacts   [email protected] | tel: +33 3 90 21 42 08   Tracey Turner-Tretz (tel: + 33 3 88 41 35 30)   Denis Lambert (tel: + 33 3 90 21 41 09)   Inci Ertekin (tel: + 33 3 90 21 55 30)   Patrick Lannin (tel: + 33 3 90 21 44 18)   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member   States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.   2