Recently, a big noise was raised by the fact that one of the Azerbaijani Kurdish community leaders Parhadin Pashaev announced that the Authorities of Armenia had solely accepted the fact of implementing genocide against Azerbaijani, Azeris, Kurds and Lezgins in Azerbaijan, and that the European Court has accepted their appeal, according to which Armenia has to compensate for the loss of Kurdish families. Aravot.am inquired about the details of mentioned case from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Alvina Gyulumyan. She answered,- “People who apply to the European Court of Human Rights consider that they are deprived from their own property, homes, ability and so on.” We got interested as to on what stage the case is. A. Gyulumyan answered,- “The case will be examined next year.”
Ms. Gyulumyan also informed that the number of applications to the European Court, unlike other countries, are few, approximately eighty percent of the applications submitted against Armenia generates necessity for further discussion. In this regard, Ms. Gyulumyan noted a number of reasons, such as the fact that the majority of applicants are Azerbaijani citizens, or that Armenian people really know their rights, have high legal consciousness, etc. Presenting the statistics, Ms. Gyulumyan said,- “During ten years of membership, only one violation was recorded out of 50 cases submitted against Armenia and examined, in the rest of the applications were rejected, this way or another, there are still 873 applications unexamined.” A. Gyulumyan said that as a judge of Armenia in the ECHR, she has felt bad for the case of Misha Harutyunyan against Armenia, when the evidence obtained through inhuman treatment and torturing was put in the basis of the verdict. Referring to the case of Grisha Virabyan and in particular the fact that the accused in this case is now a high-rank official of Armenia, A. Gyulumyan expressed such an opinion: “I do not know whether given person is exactly the one who tortured, or not, because there is a presumption of innocence. As long as there is no court verdict, unless there is no sentence that accuses given person, to say about anyone that he is guilty, will not be true.”
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
