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The European Court of Human Rights will deliver a judgment on the case Narayan and Others v. Azerbaijan on Tuesday, December 19, it said in a press release.

The applicants are ten Armenian nationals who were born between 1959 and 1998 and live in Yerevan and Stepanavan, Armenia.

The case concerns the killing of the applicants’ relatives by an Azerbaijani soldier who allegedly crossed the border onto Armenian territory and shot them.

Relying on Articles 2 (right to life), 13 (right to an effective remedy) and 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of the European Convention on Human Rights, the applicants complain that their relatives were killed unlawfully given that there was no ongoing armed conflict at the time; that they were discriminated against because of their ethnicity and national origin; and that Azerbaijan failed to conduct an effective investigation into the killings.

More information on the case can be found in the Communication to the parties available here.