Human rights defender Artak Zeynalyan does not think that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will disclose something new regarding the March 1 events. Note that on September 1, the ECHR is proceeding with the appeal of the families of March 1, 2008, victims – “Vachagan Farmanyan and others vs. the Republic of Armenia”. “This is a progress in the sense that the case is commenced and the government has to answer the questions, also it is also important that the European Court has requested the documents of the NA Commission.
I repeat, I do not think that the Court will disclose anything new, but simply they will be sent to us as a whole, if, of course, they are not ciphered, I cannot say to what extent it is possible. They will be sent to us, and perhaps we will disclose something. But the whole problem is that in the case of recognizing a violation of the right, the government should eliminate this violation and do so that the same violation will no longer happen,” said Mr. Zeynalyan. According to him, there are such countries within the CU that do not provide the documents requested by the ECHR. “But this is already a separate violation, a violation of the European Convention. Such cases are considered to be extremely shameful violations, the European Court also recognizes as a violation of the Convention.”
Mr. Zeynalyan could not say exactly to what extent the government authorities of Armenia are willing to provide the documents, the revelations of “March 1”. “Yes, there are cases with which we can say that Armenia has failed and yet does not exercise the European Court decision, but in this case, without knowing the decision, we cannot say that Armenia will definitely fail to exercise the Court’s decision, simply Armenia could not have violated the human rights European Convention,” added the human right defender.
Arpine SIMONYAN
