HARUTYUNYAN v. ARMENIA JUDGMENT
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In the case of Harutyunyan v. Armenia,
The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a
Chamber composed of:
Boštjan M. Zupančič, President,
Corneliu Bîrsan,
Jean-Paul Costa,
Alvina Gyulumyan,
Davíd Thór Björgvinsson,
Ineta Ziemele,
Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre, judges,
and Santiago Quesada, Section Registrar,
Having deliberated in private on 7 June 2007,
Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:
PROCEDURE
1. The case originated in an application (no. 36549/03) against the
Republic of Armenia lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
(“the Convention”) by an Armenian national, Mr Misha Harutyunyan (“the
applicant”), on 29 October 2003.
2. The applicant, who had been granted legal aid, was represented by
Mr H. Alumyan, a lawyer practising in Yerevan. The Armenian
Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent,
Mr G. Kostanyan, Representative of the Republic of Armenia at the
European Court of Human Rights.
3. On 5 July 2005 the Court declared the application partly inadmissible
and decided to communicate the complaint concerning the lack of a fair trial
to the Government. Under the provisions of Article 29 § 3 of the
Convention, it decided to examine the merits of the application at the same
time as its admissibility.
THE FACTS
I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CASE
4. The applicant was born in 1980 and lives in Yerevan.