FIRST SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 51386/14 Tigran ARAKELYAN and O thers against Armenia

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 7 July 2020 as a Committee composed of:

Krzysztof Wojtyczek, President, Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, Armen Harutyunyan, judges,

and Renata Degener, Deputy Section Registrar ,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 8 July 2014,

Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the case,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

A list of the applicants is set out in the appendix.

The Armenian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr Y. Kirakosyan , Representative of the Republic of Armenia before the European Court of Human Rights.

The applicants complained under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention about the fairness of the criminal proceedings against them.

On 26 March and 24 April 2020 the Court received friendly settlement declarations signed by the parties under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Armenia in respect of the facts giving rise to this application against an undertaking by the Government to pay them jointly 12,000 euros to cover any pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage as well as costs and expenses, plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants, which will be converted into Armenian drams at the rate applicable on the date of payment, and will be payable within three months from the date of notification of the decision taken by the Court. In the event of failure to pay this sum within the said three-month period, the Government undertook to pay simple interest on it, from the expiry of that period until settlement, at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank during the default period plus three percentage points. The payment will constitute the final resolution of the case.

THE LAW

The Court takes note of the friendly settlement reached between the parties. It is satisfied that the settlement is based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and its Protocols and finds no reasons to justify a continued examination of the application. In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the case out of the list.

For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,

Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.

Done in English and notified in writing on 3 September 2020 .

Renata Degener Krzysztof Wojtyczek Deputy Registrar President

Appendix

No.

Applicant ’ s Name

Birth date

Nationality

Place of residence

1Tigran ARAKELYAN

03/12/1981

Armenian

Yerevan, Armenia

2Sargis GEVORGYAN

05/04/1992

Armenian

Yerevan, Armenia

3Artak KARAPETYAN

22/04/1981

Armenian

Yerevan, Armenia

4Davit KIRAMIJYAN

12/06/1991

Armenian

Villeurbanne, France