The European Court of Human Rights has delivered judgment in the case “Sargsyan v. Azerbaijan” during a hearing on Tuesday.

According to the judgment, “Armenian refugee’s rights violated by lack of access to his property in Azerbaijan, left behind in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh”.

The Court ruled that there had been violation of protection of property right, violation of the right to respect for private and family life and violation of the right to an effective remedy.

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.  

The similar judgment was delivered in “Chiragov and Others v. Armenia” case.