FIRST ISSUE OF “PRACTICE OF EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS” MAGAZINE PUBLISHED

Noyan Tapan
Apr 19 2006

YEREVAN, APRIL 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The presentation of the first issue
of the “Practice of the European Court of Human Rights” magazine took
place on April 19. The magazine contains general information about
the history, structure, legal proceedings of the European Court
of Human Rights, verdicts brought in from 2005 up to March 2006,
statistical data, other documents concerning the court’s activity. The
court’s decision on the first complaint received from Armenia was
also published in this issue: RA citizen, member of the Hanrapetutiun
(Republic) party Armen Mkrtchian, according to the police, participated
in the unsanctioned rally of May 14 2002, for which he was arrested and
by the court’s decision an administrative fine was imposed on him. 5
decisions on cases accepted from Armenia up to now will be published
in the magazine’s next issues. It is envisaged to deliver the magazine
to judicial system’s structures, to the RA Chamber of Advocates, to
the Prosecutor’s Office, to educational institutions and NGOs. The
magazine is published by the Center for Democracy and Law NGO with
the financing of the Embassy of Great Britain in Armenia. Judge of
the European Court Alvina Gyulumian and Chairman of the Chamber on
Criminal and Military Cases of the RA Cassation Court Mher Khachatrian,
are, in particular, included in the magazine’s editorial board.