On October 24, the European Courtroom of Human Rights (ECHR) introduced 5 choices relating to 17 purposes from Azerbaijan. In all circumstances, violations of the candidates’ rights had been totally or partially acknowledged.
The ECHR dominated that the legal prosecution of journalist Seymur Khazi for hooliganism was illegal. Khazi was arrested in August 2014 and sentenced to 5 years in jail. The Courtroom discovered a violation of Khazi’s rights below Article 6 (proper to a good trial) of the European Conference and ordered Azerbaijan to pay him €4,600 in compensation.
In one other choice, the ECHR acknowledged a violation of the rights of journalist Hafiz Babaly, together with 5 different Azerbaijani residents. The grievance was associated to the prohibition of a protest resulting from violations of their property rights. The Courtroom discovered violations of the candidates’ rights to a good trial and freedom of meeting, ordering a complete of €5,800 in ethical damages and €1,500 for authorized prices.
Within the case of “Hajibaba Azimov and Others v. Azerbaijan,” the ECHR acknowledged violations of the candidates’ property rights, who had been forcibly resettled by the Baku Mayor’s Workplace resulting from park development. The Courtroom granted the Azerbaijani authorities three months to barter truthful compensation with the candidates. If no settlement is reached, the ECHR will decide the compensation quantity itself. The candidates valued the compensation at 2,101,602 manats.
An analogous ruling was made within the case “Agency Agayev and Zulfugarzade v. Azerbaijan.” The grievance involved the illegal expropriation of a home and land belonging to the agency and two people in the course of the development of the “Winter Park” advanced. The applicant sought to have the executive acts relating to property expropriation declared unlawful. Though Azerbaijan agreed to pay 1,500 manats for every sq. meter of the property as compensation, this choice was not executed.
Within the case “Namizad Safarov and Others v. Azerbaijan,” seven purposes had been mixed, with the candidates requesting recognition of violations of their rights to peaceable meeting.
The federal government unilaterally acknowledged the violation of the candidates’ rights and expressed its readiness to pay civil society activists €1,350 every for ethical damages and €225 for the reimbursement of authorized prices.
