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European Court judgment on Azerbaijan

22 April 2010 14:46 (UTC +04:00)

According to the Courtâ€™s official website, the applicants, Sarvinaz Gulmammadova and Vekil Hasanov, are Azerbaijani nationals who were born in 1961 and 1960, respectively, and live in Baku. Holders of occupancy vouchers for flats in a recently constructed building in Baku currently occupied by internally displaced persons from regions under the control of Armenian military forces, they both complained about the non-enforcement of domestic court judgments which had ordered the occupantsâ€™ eviction. They relied in particular on Article 6 Â§ 1 (right to a fair hearing) and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property) to the European Convention on Human Rights. Just satisfaction: the Government must enforce the impugned domestic judgments within three months from the date on which the Courtâ€™s judgments become final. The Court further grants 11,042 euros (EUR) to Ms Gulmammadova and EUR 10,376 to Mr. Hasanov (pecuniary damage), and EUR 4,800, each (non-pecuniary damage).