Public figure Hovhannes Ishkhanyan refused to compensate 6,000 euros, about which the ECHR decides earlier. In particular, he said. "For the sake of the independence of the judiciary, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the European Court of Human Rights, Distinguished by Armenian Democratic figures convicted for the sake of democracy and human rights for Baku. You decided to make my favor on February 13, recording that in 2015. During the protests against the electricity tariff, the rights of my freedom and peaceful gatherings have been violated.
You have ordered Armenia to pay me about 6,000 euros compensation.
If I appreciate the work done by the court and the decision made, I must reject the verdict, and therefore compensation.
Let me explain why. When the current government in 2018 The government came to Armenia, they promised to maintain European values of democracy and human rights. Sessagereed, their first major action was the systemic destruction of judiciary independence.
This attack against the judiciary began when the Prime Minister called on the supporters to block the courts, actually intimidating the judges. Then there was a more worrying thing. Progent criminal cases were filed against judges who dared to make unfavorable decisions for the government.
Some famous examples are:
• The persecution of Judge David Grigoryan
• Terrorism against Judge Alexander Azaryan and the accusations of false plagiarism
• The accusations against the President of the Constitutional Court Hrayr Tovmasyan and his family members
The Prime Minister himself violated the judicial independence, publicly violated the presumption of the President of the Constitutional Court Tovmasyan on Facebook. In his speech in the parliament and the media, he even compared the judges with the dogs.
Three judges of the Constitutional Court, Felix Tokhyan, Hrant Nazaryan and Alvina Gyulumyan were removed through parliamentary manipulations.
By the way, the latter was the first female judge of the post-Soviet countries at the ECHR. Ruben Vardazaryan, Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council, was finally removed. At that time, the Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan publicly rejected the court decision and nothing happened.
It is noteworthy that 46 organizations related to democracy and human rights were welcomed by this invasion of the judiciary.
The consequences were difficult. Political, public figures, mayors, community leaders, human rights activists and activists are persecuted, imprisoned and torture.
The Republic of Artsakh, the Artsakh Republic, was erased from the face of the planet Earth, and about 150,000 people lost their rights to the citizen. "
