Armenian Authorities Bribed European Judges Too, Say Evicted Residents Whose Claims were Rejected

Four out of the 30 claims submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) by former residents of the homes on Byuzand St. and Northern Ave. in Yerevan have been sent back, the relevant authorities noting that in these cases European Convention provisions were not breached and thus there are no grounds for hearing these claims.

This news was conveyed to Epress.am by head of the Property Rights Protection NGO Vachagan Hakobyan, who was among those protesting outside the Armenian government building Thursday.

Note, the aforementioned residents noted in their claim that they were given inadequate compensation.

According to Hakobyan, representatives of his organization yesterday wanted to present their issue also to PACE co-rapporteur for monitoring Armenia Axel Fischer, but they didn’t agree to a meeting.

“We are now already demanding their [the authorities’] resignation. They buy everything. Our authorities were able to buy off also the European Court judges. In our country, we have been struggling for different issues for 8 years; we didn’t achieve anything, and now we’re demanding only the resignation of these thieves, these plunderers. The sooner they go, the faster our country will come to order,” he said.

The group will be presenting their demand of the authorities’ resignation every Thursday, outside the government building during the meeting of the executive branch of government, he added.

Recall, the head of the NGO assisting residents who were evicted from buildings 4/14 to 4/24 Amiryan St. had told Epress.am earlier that MP Melik Gasparyan, who died from a car accident two years, had purchased the property in question from city hall 4 years ago and had apparently promised the residents new homes.