Karen Petrosyan v. Azerbaijan
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Karen Petrosyan v. Azerbaijan was an international human rights case regarding the rights of Artush Petrosyan and his son Karen Petrosyan – an Armenian national from Chinari village, Tavush province of Armenia, who died while in captivity in Azerbaijan in 2014. The judgment of the European Court of Human Rights on the case originated in an application (no. 32427/16) against the Republic of Azerbaijan lodged with the Court under the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms by the applicant, Artush Petrosyan, on 25 April 2016. He Submitted that his son had been publicly humiliated, tortured and killed by decapitation by Azerbaijani State agents and that "his son’s body had not been repatriated in a timely manner, that there had been no effective investigation on and that the alleged violations had occurred as a result of discrimination based on ethnic origin".[1]
Karen Petrosyan v. Azerbaijan | |
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Court | European Court of Human Rights |
Decided | 4 November 2021 |
Citations | European Convention on Human Rights – Articles 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 and 14 |
Case history | |
Prior action | Application no. 61737/14 lodged on 11 September 2014 |
Court membership | |
Judges sitting | Síofra O’Leary – President,
Mārtiņš Mits, Ganna Yudkivska, Lətif Hüseynov, Jovan Ilievski, Lado Chanturia, Arnfinn Bårdsen |
The Court issued judgment for the case on 4 November 2021 finding that it had been proven that Karen Petrosyan was subjected to torture. It also acknowledged the moral suffering endured by the applicant, hence concluding that there had been a violation of the Convention in respect of both the applicant and his son. It ruled that Azerbaijan had to pay 40,000 euros to Artush Petrosyan for mental suffering.