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MINISTERS’ DEPUTIES |
Resolutions |
CM/ResDH(2025)139 |
12 June 2025 |
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Interim Resolution CM/ResDH(2025)139 Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights Namazov group against Azerbaijan (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 12 June 2025 |
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Application No. |
Case |
Judgment of |
Final on |
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74354/13 |
NAMAZOV |
30/01/2020 |
30/05/2020 |
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81024/12+ |
BAGIROV |
25/06/2020 |
25/09/2020 |
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”),
Recalling that in respect of each applicant in this group, the European Court found that the applicants were disbarred in breach of the Convention requirements;
Recalling that in the case of Bagirov, the European Court indicated under Article 46 of the Convention that the adoption of measures aimed, among others, at restoring his professional activities should be feasible, timely, adequate and sufficient to ensure the maximum possible reparation for the violation found by the Court;
Recalling the Committee’s previous decisions calling on the authorities to ensure that the proceedings against the applicants are re-opened with a view to rectifying the shortcomings identified by the Court and ensuring that the applicants are provided with restitutio in integrum without delay;
Recalling the decision by the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan in the case of Aslan Ismayilov, which quashed previous decisions on his disbarment and allowed restoration of his membership in the Azerbaijani Bar Association;
Noting however that, despite the Committee’s previous calls, the authorities have not submitted any information on the individual measures taken with regard to the applicants Namazov and Bagirov;
EXPRESSED its profound concern that, five years after the final judgments in their cases and despite the Committee’s previous calls, the authorities have not submitted any information on the individual measures demonstrating tangible progress achieved with regard to the applicants Namazov and Bagirov;
STRONGLY URGED the Azerbaijani authorities to put an immediate end to this situation by ensuring that the cases in respect of these two applicants are rapidly resolved, in line with the Supreme Court’s previous decision in the similar Aslan Ismayilov case, unless the Azerbaijani Bar Association reinstates their membership in the Bar Association in the meantime.