Khadija Ismayilova v Azerbaijan (Application No 65286/13), Khadija Ismayilova v Azerbaijan no2 (Application No 30778/15) and Khadija Ismayilova v Azerbaijan no 3 (Application No 35283/14)
Briefed on: 30 May 2022
The cases concern violations of the applicant’s right to privacy and freedom of expression in connection with her work as a journalist.
Powerpoint presentation by Khadija Ismayilova
Read MoreRamazanova and others v Azerbaijan (Application No 44362/03)
Briefed on 3rd March 2022
Powerpoint by HRHF and EMDS
The case concerns the violations of the right to freedom of association on account of the failure of the authorities to apply properly the national legislation regulating the registration / the dissolution of the associations. The case was briefed by Nora Wehofsits, International Advocacy Officer, Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF), and Anar Mammadli, Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center (EMDS).
Read MoreMammadli v. Azerbaijan (Application No 47145/14)
Briefed on 20 May 2019
This case, as well as the Namat Aliyev case, concerns various violations of the right to free elections (Article 3 of Protocol No. 1) of the applicants (members of the opposition parties or independent candidates) in the context of the parliamentary elections of 2005 and 2010.
Tural Aghayev, lawyer at the Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre from Azerbaijan, briefed about this case.
Aliyev v Azerbaijan (Application No 68762/14), part of the Ilgar Mammadov group of cases
Briefed on 20 May 2019 and 22 November 2019
Intigam Aliyev was prosecuted for ‘illegal entrepreneurship’, ‘large-scale tax evasion’ and ‘aggravated abuse of power’ in August 2014. He was convicted and sentenced to 7 ½ years’ imprisonment in April 2015. The European Court found violations of Arts 3, 5(1), 5(4), 8, 18 in conjunction with Arts 5 & 8.
Prof. Philip Leach, from the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, presented his recommendations regarding individual and general measures needed to implement the judgment. He set out the judgment of the Court under Article 46, including the explicit requirement that measures should be taken to restore Mr Aliyev’s ability to carry out his professional activities.
Documents from the November 2019 briefing
Rule 9.1 submission by the applicant, November 2019 (Intigam Aliyev)
Brief and Power Point by Ramute Remezaite
Rasul Jafarov v Azerbaijan, as part of the Ilgar Mammadov group (Appl. No. 69981/14)
Briefed on: 20 February and 5 September 2017 , 20 May 2019 and 22 November 2019
The case concerns an arrest and pre-trial detention of Azerbaijani human rights defender Rasul Jafarov, which the Court found unlawful and aimed to silence and punish the applicant for his human rights activities, in violation of Articles 5 and 18 of the Convention.
In April 2020 Mr Jafarov was issued with a full acquittal by the Azerbaijan Supreme Court, with an award of compensation. This removed the bar on him working as a lawyer and restored his right to run in elections. The supervision of his case was closed on 01/09/2020.
Documents from the November 2019 briefing:
Rule 9.1 submission by the applicant, September 2019 (Rasul Jafarov)
Brief by Ramute Remezaite, EHRAC, and power point
