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    Armenia Has to Pay for Criminal Decisions of Several People

    - Roza Hovhannisyan, Reporter
    - Law - 29 November 2014, 10:49


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    Within three months the Armenian government is to satisfy the
    judgments of the European Court of Human Rights on the cases
    Baghdasaryan and Zarikyants v. Armenia, Gharibyan and others v.
    Armenia and Ghasabyan and others v. Armenia made on November 13.
    http://prosecutor.am/ckfinder/userfiles/files/CASE%20OF%20BAGHDASARYAN%20AND%20ZARIKYANTS%20v_%2 0ARMENIA.pdf
    http://prosecutor.am/ckfinder/userfiles/files/CASE%20OF%20GHARIBYAN%20AND%20OTHERS%20v_%20ARMENI A.pdf
    http://prosecutor.am/ckfinder/userfiles/files/CASE%20OF%20GHASABYAN%20AND%20OTHERS%20v_%20ARMENI A.pdf


    For the mentioned cases the Armenian government is to pay 44,000 euro,
    52,000 euro and 64,000 euro respectively. The total amount of the
    compensation is 160,000 euro. The government has the right to appeal
    against these judgments within these three months, in three months the
    government will be given three months to administer the judgments.

    Lragir.am has reported on these affected families earlier. They are
    residents of 25 Byuzand Street who have been deprived of their property
    within the framework of the Eminent Domain Program. The apartments of this
    area were demolished in 2004, and most affected families are still
    homeless. In 2011 ECtHR made a judgment on these cases but the Armenian
    government did not satisfy the judgment.

    In 2010 ECtHR informed these families that the Armenian government offered
    a friendly settlement and to give them apartments. As a next step, ECtHR
    made a judgment which the government had to satisfy within three months.

    The abovementioned families waited for three months for the government to
    satisfy the ECtHR judgment but having receiving no official letter, in
    February 2012 they wrote a letter to Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan
    who used to coordinate implementation of ECtHR judgments. These families
    were invited to the Ministry of Justice where the ex-deputy minister, now
    the rector of the Academy of Justice Ruben Melikyan told them they had to
    pay for the ECtHR judgment.

    The residents did not agree to these conditions and again applied to ECtHR
    and this year, on November 13, ECtHR passed a judgment in satisfaction of
    their application.

    The chairman of Victims of Eminent Domain NGO Sedrak Baghdasaryan, the
    first applicant of Baghdasaryan and Zarikyants v. Armenia, notes that the
    taxpayers of Armenia and the budget of poor Armenia is paying for the
    mistakes of the Armenian officials.

    "Had the judgments of our courts been fair, the developer would have paid
    us in time. Our application to the European Court is not against the
    developer but the Republic of Armenia because our property was deprived
    under the name of eminent domain. We were able to win, we were able to
    prove that there is no justice in our country, the government infringes on
    our Constitution. Three instances of the Armenian courts made unfair
    judgments and turned us out and today we proved that the state must respect
    human rights," Sedrak Baghdasaryan told Lragir.am.

    He recalls that the ex-chairman of the Court of Cassation Hovhannes
    Manukyan who is the Minister of Justice now used to make final judgments on
    such cases. The government has already paid 700,000 dollars to people
    affected by the government's Eminent Domain Program, including the
    compensation for these cases at 160,000 euro which is a huge amount for
    Armenia where poverty is officially 32%.

    This is not the end. There are several cases against Armenia awaiting ECtHR
    judgment.


    The article was financed by Fund for Investigative
    Journalism http://fij.org/

    http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/right/view/33276#sthash.44PkCB3B.dpuf

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