YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Prosecutor General who is representing Armenia at the European Court of Human Rights has left for Strasbourg to participate in the hearings on the “Chiragov against the Republic of Armenia” case.

The hearings will take place on Wednesday, adviser to the Prosecutor General Kristine Melkonyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am. The case on “Sargsyan against the Republic of Azerbaijan” is slated for February.

In 2010, the ECtHR started examining the Armenian Sargsyan family’s lawsuit filed against Azerbaijan for the first time.

In 2006, Minas Sargsyan—a former resident of Gyulistan village of Shahumyan Region in Northern Karabakh—filed a lawsuit against the demolition of his house and their forcible expulsion from their place of residence. Even though Minas Sargsyan has passed away since, his widow and children continue to follow the judicial process.       

It is noteworthy that, on the same day, the ECtHR also started examining a group of Azerbaijanis lawsuit (Chiragov and others vs. Armenia) filed against Armenia.  

These cases are considered the prototype of similar lawsuits.