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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 5, ARMENPRESS. The hearings of “Sargsyan against Azerbaijan” lawsuit commenced in the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on February 5. The applicant stated that he was forced to leave his house in 1992 because of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno Karabakh. Declarant Minas Sargsyan (born in 1929) died in 2009. Sargsyan’s son and daughter were declared as his legal successors.
The Adviser to Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia Kristine Melkonyan informed “Armenpress” thatPhilip Leach, Narine Gasparyan, Arman Aloyan, and Vahe Grigoryan introduced the interests of the applicant in the court. Philip Leach introduced that case and particularly noted that Sargsyan was living in a duplex-type house in the village of Gulistan in the Shahumyan Province. During the Nagorno Karabakh conflict Gulistan was subjected to bombing by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces and the applicant was forced to leave Gulistan along with his family to survive and they had no chance to go back in future.
The first hearing on the suit of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia was held in September 2010. Minas Sargsyan introduced a suit on August 11 against the demolition of his house and forcible deportation from his own residence, violation of law on disposing his property and the right for using it, violation of the right to personal and family life, elimination of a number of Armenian cemeteries in Azerbaijan, forcible deportation of Armenians from their residences, discrimination because of national and religious affiliation, as well as the Government's inaction on the violence facts towards Armenians.