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Advocate Ara Ghazaryan, who is the representative of Manvel Saribekyan's successors who was killed in captivity, will soon send a decision of criminal case suspension that was initiated on the fact of murder to the European Court of Human Rights.

It was adopted on the grounds of Azerbaijani refusal to cooperate with Armenia, even in the international framework for mutual legal assistance under the Minsk Convention.

As we know, Armenian authorities, especially Prosecutor General's Office appealed to Azeribaijani authorities so that the latter send criminal case materials and answer some questions.  Second request from the RF Prosecutor General, as well as the first from RA remained unanswered.

A lawyer as an actual evidence presented to the court the recent events regarding axe-murderer Ramil Safarov, when sentenced to life imprisonment criminal was extradited to Azerbaijan and later pardoned and even rewarded.

Ghazaryan explained that there is a separate section on xenophobia in M. Saribekyan’s murder case’s complaint, so all the arguments that are present in M. Saribekyan’s case were proved in the latest events concerning Safarov.

A. Ghazaryan sent a separate letter to the President of ECHR, complaing that ECHR Secretariat trice sent the document with a huge delay.

Note that Manvel Saribekyan was an inhabitant of Ttujur of RA Gegharqunik region and the Armenian-Azerbaijani goes in the immediate vicinity from the village.

On September 11 2010 at 5 p.m. Manvel Saribekyan went with his friends to Keghut to collect wood from the nearby forest and to search for the animals that were lost the previous day. Manvel proposed to his friends to continue collecting wood while he would try to find the animals. Taking a horse Manvel rode in the direction of wooded gulch and never returned.

On October 4 2010 Azerbaijani Defense Ministry and Military Prosecutor’s Office issued a joined statement that Manvel Saribekyan committed a suicide while being under custody. About a month later, on November 4 2010 Azerbaijani authorities handed over the body of Manvel Saribekayn in decomposed condition.

On November 5 2010 in RA Police Chambarak Investigation Department a criminal case regarding a murder committed on ethnic hatred and done with special cruelty was initiated according to RA Criminal Code Article 104 Paragraph 2 Points 5 and 13.

ECHR complaint was presented on behalf of Manvel Saribekyan’s parents: Mamikon Saribekyan and Siranush Balyan on the grounds of violation Article 3 – Right to Life of the European Convention on Human Rights. Article 3 of the Convention – Prohibition of Torture was also violated. Manvel has been tortured before his death and afterwards imitation of committed suicide was made to hide the traces of the crime.

The complaint also includes facts of violating Articles 13 and 14 – the Lack of effective legal protection and Discrimination on the national origin.