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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has today issued a judgement in the case of Yuri Vardanyan v. Armenia, ordering Armenia to pay a large sum of €1,6 million to the applicant who was born in 1936 and lives in Yerevan.

The case concerned the question of just satisfaction with regard to the deprivation of his house and plot of land and the related civil proceedings, the court said.

Yuri Vardanyan’s property was taken in favor of the state, while he received only a compensation of 54 million drams instead of 276 million drams.

In its principal judgment of 27 October 2016, the European court held that there had been a violation of Article 6.1 (right to a fair hearing) of the European Convention on Human Rights and a violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property) to the convention.

Today’s judgment concerned the question of just satisfaction, with Armenia obliged to pay the applicant 1,602,000 euros in respect of pecuniary damage and 6,000 euros in non-pecuniary damage.