On July 10 of 2018, the Criminal Court of Appeal (chaired by Judge A. Danielyan) made a decision to satisfy the appeal submitted by Araks Melkonyan, defender of Vahagn Ghumashyan and to partially overturn the decision made by the RA First Instance Court of Yerevan (chaired by the Judge D. Balayan) on May 8 of […]
Category: Right to a fair trail
Levon Barseghyan
On June 1 of 2018, the Criminal Court of Appeals (chaired by Judge M. Martirosyan) made a decision to satisfy the appeal submitted by the defenders of Levon Barseghyan Haykuhi Harutyunyan and Araks Melkonyan and to overturn the decision on the detention of Levon Barseghyan made by the Yerevan First Instance Court (chaired by Judge […]
A. Avetisyan
On July 19 of 2018, the Criminal Court of Appeal chaired by Judge Vazgen Rshtuni adopted a decision to satisfy the appeal submitted by the “Protection of Rights without Borders” NGO annulling the decision made by the First Instance Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan. The court has also obliged the body in charge of […]
Vardan Teymurazyan
The European Court of Human Rights made a decision on the case of Teymurazyan v. Armenia on March 15 of 2018. Araks Melkonyan, lawyer of the Protection of Rights without Borders NGO presented the interests of the applicant V. Teymurazyan at the ECHR. The ECHR recorded a violation of the right to illegal detention, as […]
K. Avagyan
In 2008, Kh. Avagyan was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing two people. In the domestic courts of the Republic of Armenia, the approval of Avagyan’s guilt was based on the witnesses given by the relatives and neighbors of the victim, as well as on the expertise conclusions. The courts, however, failed to finally and […]