Georgian human rights defenders treat deceased Emil Adelkhanov as their teacher

Emil Adelkhanov, a deceased human rights defender, stood at the origins of the birth of the civil society in Georgia, and thanks to him, a lot of people learned about the international human rights movement. This was stated by the colleagues and friends of Emil Adelkhanov. According to them, first of all, the human rights defender "was guided by ideas of humanism."

Today, Emil Adelkhanov, a member of the Board of the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, has died in Tbilisi. For a long time, he was a representative of human rights organizations "Amnesty International" (AI) and "Human Rights Watch" (HRW) in Georgia, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports,

According to Liya Mukhashavriya, a member of the Georgian Bar Association, Emil Adelkhanov "started his human rights activities yet in the 1990s."

Liya Mukhashavriya has emphasized that due to Emil Adelkhanov, the first case from Georgia was sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), immediately after the Georgia's accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. A complaint of Zoya Kobalova, fired from her jobs on ethnic ground, was filed to the ECtHR.

According to Gela Nikolaishvili, a member of the Bar Association of Georgia and an agent of the NGO "Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights", for a long time, "Emil Adelkhanov acted as a mediator between the Georgian and international human rights organizations."

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