YEREVAN. - Since the beginning of the current year, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has made 12 decisions against Armenia.

Eight decisions were made during the analogous period last year, whereas in 2014 their number amounted to four.   

Deputy Minister of Justice Artak Asatryan told the aforementioned to Armenian News – NEWS.am.

In his words, according to the official website of the ECHR, since 2002 to 1 June 2016, the court has considered 2642 complaints against Armenia. The ECHR considered 1351 or 51.13 percent of them inadmissible, withdrawing them from the list of cases subject to consideration. As of 14 November 2016, the ECHR has made 69 decisions. In 66 of them it found violations, no violations being found in the rest three of them. 

 

The decisions against Armenia have been taken since 2007. 5 and 6 decisions finding violations were taken in 2007 and 2008 respectively. In 2009, the ECHR made nine decisions, whereas in 2010 five decisions finding violations were taken. 5 decisions were taken in 2011, 16 decisions in 2012, 2 decisions in 2013, 4 decisions in 2014 and 8 decisions in 2015. No violation has been found in 14 decisions since the beginning of the current year.

“As to the growth in the number of complaints against Armenia, their number couldn’t but grow, considering the objective reality, namely the formation of the practice of applying to the ECHR. The growth in the number of attorneys should also be added to this,” the Deputy Minister noted.

Referring to the increasing number of complaints of citizens who don’t trust national judicial instances, the Deputy Justice Minister noted that it is inappropriate to link the growth in the number of complaints with the distrust towards the judicial system. “This is a legal process, and the claimant is exercising his rights,” Asatryan noted.

The Deputy Minster also noted that as of November 14, the complainants have claimed 15 mln euro damages under the decisions taken, out of which 903, 229 euro, that is 6.02 percent, has been satisfied. The entire amount of the claims satisfied by the court has been fully compensated but the statistics doesn’t consider several cases: Chiragov and Others v. Armenia, Karen Poghosyan v. Armenia, Ara Harutyunyan v. Armenia, Ter-Sargsyan v. Armenia, Vardanyan and Nanushyan v. Armenia, Avetisyan v. Armenia.