PanARMENIAN.Net - The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights consisting of 17 judges ruled on two cases related to Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
In particular, in Tuesday, December 12's Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Sargsyan v. Azerbaijan, the ECHR ruled on the question of just satisfaction. It held, unanimously, that the Azerbaijani government has to pay the applicant €5,000 in respect of pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage and €30,000 in costs and expenses.
The case concerned an Armenian refugee’s complaint that, after having been forced to flee from his home in the Shahumyan region of Azerbaijan in 1992 during the conflict over Karabakh, he had since been denied the right to return to his village and to have access to and use his property there.
Also, in the case of Chiragov a...
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