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Armenia’s Representative before ECHR says work of CoE Committee of Ministers over captives was not satisfactory

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Armenia’s Representative before ECHR says work of CoE Committee of Ministers over captives was not satisfactory

At the initial period the authorities of Azerbaijan were not cooperating with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) at all over the issue of Armenian captives, or were ignoring that issue and were constantly violating the deadlines of the interim measure as applied by the Court, Representative of Armenia before the ECHR Yeghishe Kirakosyan said during an online press conference.

He stated that the Court has approved most of Armenia’s appeals requesting to apply interim measures against Azerbaijan.

“With such means, of course, an attempt was made to get legal obliging information from Azerbaijan, obliging them to ensure proper attitude towards the captured persons in accordance with the requirements of the Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, so that at least two key articles – the second and the third articles (right to life and prohibition of torture) were not violated”, he said.

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