CASE OF ALIYEV AGAINST AZERBAIJAN AND 5 OTHER CASES

Resolution CM/ResDH(2024)348 Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights Six cases against Azerbaijan   (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 11 December 2024 at the 1515th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)    Application No. Case Judgment of Final on 37714/17 ALIYEV 19/10/2023 19/10/2023 6180/15 AYYUBZADE 02/03/2023 02/06/2023 45929/17 IBISHBEYLI 23/06/2022 23/06/2022 77612/11 ISGANDAROV 17/03/2022 17/03/2022 1459/14 SADIGOV 01/09/2022 01/09/2022 54151/11+ SAVALANLI AND OTHERS 15/12/2022 15/03/2023   The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which provides that the Committee supervises the execution of final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” and “the Court”,   Having regard to the final judgments transmitted by the Court to the Committee in these cases and to the violations established mainly on account of the various irregularities and the excessive length of detention on remand (violations of Article 5 of the Convention);   Recalling the respondent State’s obligation, under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention, to abide by all final judgments in cases to which it has been a party and that this obligation entails, over and above the payment of any sums awarded by the Court, the adoption by the authorities of the respondent State, where required:   -          of individual measures to put an end to violations established and erase their consequences so as to achieve as far as possible restitutio in integrum; and -          of general measures preventing similar violations;   Having invited the government of the respondent State to inform the Committee of the measures taken to comply with the above-mentioned obligation;   Having examined the action reports provided by the government indicating the measures adopted to give effect to the judgments including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see documents DH-DD(2024)819 and DH-DD(2024)1005);   Considering that the question of individual measures was resolved, given that the applicants are no longer held in detention on remand;   Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in these judgments continues to be examined within the framework of the Farhad Aliyev group (No. 37138/06), also in the light of the Court’s findings in these cases, and that the closure of these cases therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures required;   DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in these cases;   CONCLUDES that the necessary individual measures have been adopted;   DECIDES to continue to supervise the adoption of the necessary general measures within the framework of the Farhad Aliyev group;   DECIDES to close the examination of these cases.