GOVERNMENT TO MEET EUROPEAN COURT’S DEADLINE
Panorama.am
19:50 05/09/2007
The European Human Rights Court, in January of this year, came to
its first decision regarding the Republic of Armenia. "Lazarian
vs. Armenia" concluded in favor of the applicant, Armen Lazarian. We
remind that in 2002 Lazarian was fined 500 dram for taking part in
a demonstration against the government.
Lazarian applied to the European court, demanding under article 11
of its human rights convention (protecting the individual’s right to
participate in any demonstration) that his rights were violated. The
European court decided that a violation had in fact occurred.
Also, this April the court passed another decision, "Harutyunyan
vs. Armenia," in which it declared that Harutyunyan was deprived
of a fair trial. The government is obliged to pay Harutyunyan four
thousand Euros for moral injury.
Recently, concerning the case, attorney Hayk Alumyan declared that
the Armenian government wasn’t complying with the European court’s
decision. He added that the government isn’t translating the decision
into Armenian and is doing nothing to publicize the case.
"None of this corresponds with the decision taken by the European
court’s convention on human rights and the carrying-out of the decision
in "Harutyunyan vs.
Armenia," Alumyan said in a declaration presented to the ministry
of justice. Finally, as noted by the human rights convention, the
decision should become law after three months.
In the "Harutyunyan vs. Armenia" case, in accordance with the 4th
point of the article, the government is obliged to not transfer the
sum and also have the case translated and published within the noted
time frame.
All of this needs to be done by December 28 of this year, with which
the Armenian government plans to comply.