ECHR Finds Azerbaijan's Complaint Against Armenia Inadmissible

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has deemed inadmissible the complaint filed by an Azerbaijani citizen against Armenia, according to the Armenian representative's office at the ECHR.

On February 18, 2021, the ECHR published its decision regarding the case titled "Samadov v. Armenia" (application no. 36606/08). The applicant allegedly owned property in the Kelbajar region, which he left in 1993. He filed a complaint with the European Court in 2008, over six years after Armenia ratified the European Convention on Human Rights.

Moreover, more than 15 years had passed since the applicant was forcibly displaced from the property he allegedly owned. In such circumstances, even considering the applicant's refugee status, the European Court found the submission of the complaint more than six years after the ratification of the Convention to be excessively late.

Consequently, the European Court recognized the complaint as inadmissible.