Content tagged with Armenia
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Armenian LGBT+ club owner sues for justice at European Court of Human Rights over neo-Nazi arson attack
EHRAC has responded to the Armenian Government’s observations in a case concerning the firebombing of an LGBT+ venue in Yerevan in 2012.
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EHRAC and Yale Law School submit third-party intervention in Nagorno-Karabakh right to life cases
EHRAC, together with the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, has submitted a third-party intervention at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in two cases arising from the renewal of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan in April 2016 over the disputed Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Resource | Interview | 22 Oct 2019
Interview with Tamar Oniani, GYLA Strategic Litigation Lawyer and Legal Skills Development Programme 2019 Participant
EHRAC spoke to one of the 2019 Legal Skills Development Programme participants , GYLA Strategic Litigation Lawyer Tamar Oniani, about her experience in Strasbourg.
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Resource | Case Summary | 2 Oct 2019 | By Oliver Saunders
Aliyev v Armenia, Hakobyan v Azerbaijan et al.
Four cases brought by four separate families whose homes were shelled by the armed forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan during the hostilities of April 2016 have been communicated to the ECtHR.
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Resource | Case Summary | 25 Apr 2019 | By Roman Kiselyov
Ter-Petrosyan v Armenia
The applicant, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, is an Armenian national who was the President of Armenia between 1991 and 1998. He was the main opposition candidate in the 19 February 2008 Presidential election, standing against then Prime Minister Mr Sargsyan. Immediately after the preliminary results of the election were announced, the applicant called on his supporters to gather at Yerevan’s Freedom Square to protest against alleged electoral irregularities.
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Armenian newspaper’s ‘Blacklist’ of LGBTI activists is hate speech
EHRAC and PINK Armenia are representing 14 people included on a 'blacklist' in 2014 inciting discrimination against LGBTI+ people.
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Resource | Case Summary | 20 Sep 2018 | By Roman Kiselyov
Mushegh Saghatelyan v Armenia
Mushegh Saghatelyan, an opposition politician, was unlawfully arrested and detained following the 2008 protests which were violently dispersed on 1 March.
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Resource | Case Summary | 12 Dec 2017 | By Harriet Bland
Sargsyan v Azerbaijan (Just Satisfaction)
Minas Sargsyan, an ethnic Armenian, lived in Gulistan village, Azerbaijan, until 1992, when he and his family were forced to flee to Armenia as refugees, following heavy bombing by Azerbaijani forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He applied to the ECtHR for redress in 2006.
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Happy International Women’s Day!
To celebrate, we asked 8 of the inspirational women we work with - our partners, clients, our former interns - to talk about how they Press For Progress.
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Ten years on, families of those killed during 1 March protests in Yerevan need answers
To this day, there remain many unanswered questions about the events of 1 March 2008 and no one has been held responsible for the ten deaths.