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Azerbaijan violated Armenian captives’ right to life: ECHR releases judgments

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 15:26, 4 November, 2021

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 4, ARMENPRESS. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has released the judgments of the cases relating to resident of Armenia’s Karmiraghbyur village Mamikon Khojoyan and resident of Chinari village Karen Petrosyan who have been captured and tortured by Azerbaijan in 2014.

The Court concluded that Baku has violated Articles 2 (right to life), 3 (prohibition of torture) and 5 (right to liberty and security) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Court obliged Azerbaijan to pay 40,000 Euros for each cases.

77-year-old Mamikon Khojoyan was captured by Azerbaijan in January 2014. On March 4 he was handed over to Armenia and died at home ten weeks later. The cause of death was, according to the post-mortem forensic report, a general intoxication of the organism.

Karen Petrosyan was captured by the Azerbaijani troops on August 7, 2014. On 8 August 2014 the Azerbaijani authorities announced that Mr Petrosyan had died unexpectedly, according to preliminary information due to “acute cardio-pulmonary and myocardial failure”.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS