Friday, November 25 2016 12:39

ArmInfo. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday handed down two more rulings against Armenia stemming from what it considers deeply flawed  investigations conducted by Armenian law-enforcement authorities.

The RFE/RL Armenian service (Azatutyun) reports that the  Strasbourg-based court awarded 50,000 euros ($55,000) in damages to  the family of Suren Muradian, an Armenian army soldier who died in  Nagorno-Karabakh in 2002. It ruled that military authorities did not  properly investigate the death and punish those responsible for it.

In his lawsuit filed with the ECHR, Suren's father, Hrach Muradian,  said that the army conscript died from a serious illness because he  never received adequate medical assistance during his military  service.

In the second ruling, the ECHR ordered the Armenian government to pay  2,400 euros to an Armenian man who was convicted of murder in 2009.  It said that the Armenian authorities violated Spartak Manucharian's  right to fair trial.

An Armenian court ignored Manucharian's claim that he had falsely  admitted killing a resident of the northern town of Alaverdi under  duress during the pre-trial investigation.

Thousands of Armenians have appealed to the ECHR since their country  submitted itself to the Strasbourg tribunal's jurisdiction over a  decade ago. The court has ruled against the Armenian state on more  than 60 occasions to date. In 2015 alone it awarded 230,000 euros in  damages to individuals whose rights were found to have been violated  by Armenian government, law-enforcement or judicial bodies.