The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will reconvene on Wednesday to examine the Sargsyan vs. the Republic of Azerbaijan case. 

Armenia’s Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan, who is also the country’s representative to the ECtHR, likewise will attend the court session. 

The ECtHR is considering two prototype lawsuits: Chiragov and others vs. Armenia, and Sargsyan vs. the Republic of Azerbaijan.  

The court session on the Chiragov case was held on January 22.

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 was in 2010 that the ECtHR started examining the Armenian Sargsyan family’s lawsuit filed against Azerbaijan.

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

These cases are considered a prototype for similar lawsuits.