Communicated on 14 November 2016

FIRST SECTION

Application no. 603/10
Katya KHLGHATYAN and others
against Armenia
lodged on 16 December 2009

STATEMENT OF FACTS

The applicants are Armenian nationals, members of one family, who live in Ararat. The first applicant, Mrs Katya Khlghatyan, was born in 1949. The other applicants are the first applicant’s family members, who all live together. Mr Arayik Khlghatyan and Mr Artak Khlghatyan, born in 1972 and 1975 respectively, are the first applicant’s sons. Mrs Nelli Musikyan, born in 1980, and Mrs Melanya Manukyan, born in 1977, are the latters’ wives, respectively. Miss Ani Khlghatyan, Miss Katrin Khlghatyan, Miss Mary Khlghatyan and Mr Khachik Khlghatyan, born in 2000, 2004, 2006 and 2009, are the children of the first applicant’s sons and her grandchildren. The applicants are represented before the Court by Ms Monika Hakobyan, a lawyer practising in Yerevan.

The circumstances of the case

The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows.

Until 1989 the first applicant and her family lived in an apartment in the city of Ararat, Armenia, with the right of use of accommodation.

It appears that in 1989 the Executive Committee of the Ararat City Council took a decision to demolish the building in which their apartment was situated, with the purpose of constructing a new building in its place.

On 26 June 1989 the Executive Committee concluded an agreement with the first applicant’s husband about allocating an apartment to his family, suitable for the number of his family members, in the newly‑constructed building.

On 29 August 1996 the Executive Committee granted the application of the first applicant’s husband, permitting the latter’s family to occupy temporarily a one-room living space (hereinafter referred to as a communal apartment) in a communal building until the newly‑constructed apartment could be handed over. In 1997, after th