Communicated on 21 June 2018
FIFTH SECTION
Application no. 57978/14
Ramiz MAMMADOV and Others
against Azerbaijan
lodged on 15 August 2014
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The applicants are internally displaced persons (IDPs), who moved to Baku as a result of the occupation of their home towns by Armenian armed forces and settled in squatter houses built by them in Baku. The application concerns the alleged unlawful expropriation and demolition of the applicants’ squatter houses by the Baku Metropolitan for construction of an electricity depot and the alleged discriminatory treatment on the account of the applicants’ provision with free temporary accommodation due to their status as IDPs, whereas other residents, whose squatter houses had been demolished in the same area had been paid monetary compensation.
QUESTIONS tO THE PARTIES
1. Did the applicants have “possessions” within the meaning of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention? If so, have the applicants been deprived of their possessions in the public interest, and in accordance with the conditions provided for by law, within the meaning of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention? In particular, what were the substantive and procedural conditions required by the applicable law for the expropriation or demolition to be lawful, and were those conditions complied with in the present case? If the interference was lawful, did that interference impose an excessive individual burden on the applicants (see, mutatis mutandis, Immobiliare Saffi v. Italy, [GC], no. 22774/93, § 59, ECHR 1999-V)?
2. Have the applicants suffered discrimination in the enjoyment of their Convention rights under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1, contrary to Article 14 of the Convention?
In particular, have the applicants been refused to be paid monetary compensation, whereas other individuals in the same situation have been paid such compensation?
If so, did that difference in treatment pursue a legitimate aim; and did it have a reasonable justification?
APPENDIX
No.
Applicant name
Birth year
Nationality
Place of residence
Representative
Ramiz MAMMADOV
1953
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Fuad ABDULOV
1962
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Samad ABDULOV
1971
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Ibrahim ALIYEV
1949
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Fatma ALIYEVA
1956
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Bayram AZIZOV
1967
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Kifayat AZIZOVA
1966
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Khalig BAKHISHOV
1972
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Allahverdi DOLKHANOV
1952
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Giyas GULIYEV
1952
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Zaur GULIYEV
1980
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Rahila HADIYEVA
1947
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Anvar HASANOV
1958
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Elshad HUMBATOV
1963
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Kamil HUSEYNOV
1961
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Talish HUSEYNOV
1940
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Knyaz MAHMUDOV
1964
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Ahliyyat MAMMADOV
1955
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Elnur MAMMADOV
1971
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Shakir MURADOV
1964
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Emir NAMAZALIYEV
1942
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
Vugar NAMAZALIYEV
1969
Azerbaijan
Absheron
Hafiz Hasanov
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