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Аuthor: Murad Rustambayli is a human rights researcher and advocate based in Baku. He completed his master’s degree in “Theory and Practice of Human Rights”; at the University of Essex in 2019 and has been actively engaging within the civil society initiatives in Azerbaijan since 2013. For the last few years, he has been professionally cooperating with local and international NGOs, where he is overseeing the monitoring of human rights violations, publication of thematic and regular human rights reports, and communicating with both European and UN-based human rights mechanisms.
Introduction
Azerbaijan stands as the 5th on the non-implementation scale in the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR or the Court hereinafter) decisions. 1 In leading Mammadli group of cases (Mammadli group hereinafter), the general reluctance of authorities is combined with selective justice in relation to the applicants. In an apparent systemic approach, the
Government has mostly avoided delivering the implementation of judgements in a full, meaningful and timely manner.
This article examines the deadlock established by the Azerbaijani government in the way of implementation of the Court decisions in a remarkable Mammadli group alongside analysis of such record under the international human rights law obligations.
Background
According to…