ECHR delivered judgements on 41 applications against Armenia last year

News.am, Armenia
Jan 30 2020

12:34, 30.01.2020
                  

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered judgments on 41 applications against Armenia last year, around 2.5 times more than in previous year, the annual report published by ECHR says.

The number of new applications allocated to a judicial formation was 148, the number decreased by 11% compared to 167 applications in 2018.

Armenia has remained in the top-ten states by the number of pending applications, the statistics shows. For Armenia, there were 1,631 cases pending, a small decrease (by 14%) as compared to 1,901 in 2018.

Overall, 372 applications related to Armenia were declared inadmissible or struck out, which is more than five times more than 72 in 2018.

For Armenia, 63 applications were communicated to the Armenian government in 2019.

Twenty judgements that contained at least one violation were delivered during the year. 

The total number of judgments delivered between 1959 and 2019 for Armenia was 123, in 112 out of them at least one violation was found. The highest number of violations related to the right to a fair trial, and right to liberty and security.