The Procedural Obligation to Protect the Right to Life: Compliance of the Georgian Law and Practice with the European Human Rights Standards

Abstract The article analyses the procedural obligation to protect the right to life in Georgia in the light to the standards established under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights. It focuses both on the national law and practice in Georgia. For this purpose the article focuses on the elements of the procedural obligations as established under the practice of the ECtHR. Based on this analysis, few conclusions are drawn: while the Georgian law mainly reflects the relevant European standards, implementation of these standards is not satisfactory in practice.