ECtHR to consider claims of Azerbaijani citizens to Armenia and vice versa

On September 15, the High Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will consider the claim of an Armenian citizen against Azerbaijan and the claim of six Azerbaijanis against Armenia. The applicants claim violations of their civil rights during the Karabakh War in 1991-1992.

Elkhan and Adyshirin Chiragov, Ramiz Dzhebrailov, Akif Gasanov, Fekhreddin Pashaev and Garadzha Dzhebrailov - residents of the Lachin District of Nagorno-Karabakh, Kurds by their nationality, - on May 17, 1992, lost their houses and all the property.

The "1news.az" reports that the claimants state that the Armenian government continues breaking their rights by refusing to compensate the losses; they demand that the authorities let them to return and settle in their homeland and pay full compensation of their material damage.

Also on September 15, case No. 40167/06 will be considered on the claim of citizen of Armenia Minas Sarkisyan against Azerbaijan, in which he asserts that his house in Shaumyan settlement (nowadays - Gyulistan), Goranboy District of Azerbaijan, was destroyed, which means violation of Article 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Besides, as the claimant asserts, in 1991 the government of Azerbaijan was guilty of breaking Articles 8 and 9 of the Convention, since it had failed to protect his family; and Armenian tombs were destroyed in Karabakh. Mr Sarkisyan asserts also that the Azerbaijani government had failed to defend Armenians (Article 13) and that Armenians were exposed to national and religious discrimination in Azerbaijan (Article 14).

Minas Sarkisyan has died, and the process is run by his daughter, the "Vesti.Az" reports.