The European Court of Human Rights has delivered a judgement in case of Masis Ayvazyan vs. Armenia.

Masis Ayvazyan was charged with assaulting a police officers and was sentenced to a suspended term of one and a half years’ imprisonment.

 The Court declared the complaint under Article 5 § 1 of the Convention concerning the alleged unlawfulness of the applicant’s detention between 1 and 13 May 2008 and the complaint under Article 5 § 3 of the Convention concerning the alleged failure of the domestic courts to provide relevant and sufficient reasons for his detention admissible and the remainder of the application inadmissible.

The Court held that there was violation of Article 5§ 1 and Article 5 § 3 of the Convention.

ECHR held that Armenia is to pay the applicant 4,500 euros.