Malachini and Others v. Russia

Malachini and Others v. Russia, joined with Chikviladze and Antsukhelidze v. Russia, is a human rights case decided by a seven-judge chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on 23 June 2026. The case arose from applications lodged in 2009 and 2010 concerning the summary execution and systemic torture of Georgian prisoners of war by Russian forces and their South Ossetian allies during the August 2008 Russo-Georgian War. The Court unanimously found the Russian Federation liable for substantive and procedural violations of Article 2 and Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.