Saribekyan and Balyan v. Azerbaijan
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Saribekyan and Balyan v. Azerbaijan was an international human rights case filed by the parents of Manvel Saribekyan - an Armenian national from the Ttujur village in the Gegharkunik province of Armenia, who died while in captivity in Azerbaijan in 2010. The judgment of the European Court of Human Rights on the case originated in an application (no. 35746/11) against the Republic of Azerbaijan lodged with the Court under the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms on 10 June 2011.
Saribekyan and Balayan v. Azerbaijan | |
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Court | European Court of Human Rights |
Decided | 30 January 2020 |
Citation(s) | European Convention on Human Rights - Articles 2, 3, 13 and 14 |
Court membership | |
Judge(s) sitting | Angelika Nußberger - President,
Yonko Grozev, Ganna Yudkivska, Síofra O’Leary, Mārtiņš Mits, Latif Huseynov, Lado Chanturia |
The parents of Saribeyan alleged that their son was tortured and killed while in detention in Azerbaijan on the basis of ethnic hatred. On January 30, 2020, the Court ruled that Azerbaijan had violated Articles 2 and 3 of the Conversion (the right to life and the prohibition of torture), in the case of Manvel Saribekyan. The Court ordered the State of Azerbaijan to pay the parents of Manvel Saribekyan 60 thousand euros.[1]