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ECHR orders Armenia to pay damages to Azerbaijani IDPs

13 December 2017 11:22 (UTC+04:00)
ECHR orders Armenia to pay damages to Azerbaijani IDPs

By Rashid Shirinov

Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has made a new decision on “Chiragov and Others v. Armenia” case, the court informed on December 12.

The decision prescribes that the government of Armenia has to pay 5,000 euros to each of the six plaintiffs for the material and moral damage inflicted, as well as 28,642 pounds sterling for total costs.

The plaintiffs in the case are six Azerbaijani internally displaced persons – Elkhan and Adishirin Chiragovs, Ramiz Jabrayilov, Akif Hasanov, Fakhraddin Pashayev and Gara Jabrayilov.

On June 16, 2015 the ECHR ruled on “Chiragov and Others v. Armenia” case and found violations of property rights, the right to respect for private and family life and the right to an effective remedy of the plaintiffs.

Armenia broke out a lengthy war against Azerbaijan by laying territorial claims on the country. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.

To this day, Armenia has not implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding districts.

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Rashid Shirinov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @RashidShirinov

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