Press Release: Grand Chamber judgment Chiragov and Others v. Armenia – Azerbaijani refugees’ lack of access to property

Report of the judgment Chiragov and Others v. Armenia (application no. 13216/05) in the European Court of Human Rights on the 16 June 2015. In the judgment the ECHR said that Azerbaijani refugees’ rights were violated by lack of access to their property located in district controlled by Armenia.

The case concerned the complaints by six Azerbaijani refugees that they were unable to return to their homes and property in the district of Lachin, in Azerbaijan, from where they had been forced to flee in 1992 during the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.

There are currently more than one thousand individual applications pending before the Court which were lodged by persons displaced during the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.

EurActiv, 19.06.15: Strasbourg court decision deals blow to Armenia over Azerbaijan http://www.euractiv.com/sections/europes-east/strasbourg-court-decision-deals-blow-armenia-over-azerbaijan-315575

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