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European Court of Human Rights passes two decisions on Azerbaijan

08 October 2009 15:41 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Victoria Dementyeva â€“ APA. The European Court of Human Rights passed two decisions on Azerbaijan, APA reports quoting the Courtâ€™s website. Under Article 41 (just satisfaction) of the Convention, the Court awarded the first applicant, Tebieti MÃ¼hafize Cemiyyeti, a non-profit non-governmental organization, 8,000 euros (EUR) in respect of non-pecuniary damage and EUR 1,150 for costs and expenses. The organization was dissolved in 2003 and its members appealed the Court on injustice dissolution.
The European Court of Human Rights passed decision on the case of Rahib Shaval Maksimov. The applicant made no claim under Article 41 (just satisfaction) of the Convention, so the Court made no such award. However, it held, by four votes to three, that the most appropriate form of redress would be to reopen the cassation proceedings in order to guarantee the examination of the applicantâ€™s appeal in accordance with the requirements of Article 6 of the Convention.
Rahib Shaval oglu Maksimov, is an Azerbaijani national who was born in 1961 and is currently serving a life sentence in Gobustan Prison (Azerbaijan) for a bomb attack carried out in March 1994 in the Baku metro killing 14 people and injuring many more. He was initially given a death sentenced which, following the abolition of the death penalty in Azerbaijan in 1998, was commuted to life imprisonment. The Court dismissed Maksimovâ€™s appeal.