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European Court of Human Rights to make decision on Azerbaijan

02 April 2010 08:40 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Victoria Dementieva â€“ APA. The European Court of Human Rights will make one more decision on Azerbaijan on April 8, 2010. According to APA, the decision will be passed due to the application submitted by Namat Faiz oglu Aliyev, an Azerbaijani national who was born in 1966 and lives in Baku. A candidate for parliamentary elections in November 2005, Namat Aliyev alleges that the domestic authorities failed to effectively address his complaints concerning election irregularities, making it impossible to determine the true opinion of the voters and thus infringing his right to stand in free elections. He relies in particular on Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 (right to free elections). Further relying on Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination), the applicant also alleges that, as an opposition candidate (for the Azadliq party), he was discriminated against during the entire election process on account of his political affiliation.