HAJILI v. AZERBAIJAN JUDGMENT
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In the case of Hajili v. Azerbaijan,
The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting as a
Chamber composed of:
Nina Vajić, President,
Elisabeth Steiner,
Khanlar Hajiyev,
Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska,
Julia Laffranque,
Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos,
Erik Møse, judges,
and Søren Nielsen, Section Registrar,
Having deliberated in private on 6 December 2011,
Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:
PROCEDURE
1. The case originated in an application (no. 6984/06) against the
Republic of Azerbaijan lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
(“the Convention”) by an Azerbaijani national, Mr Arif Mustafa oglu Hajili
(Arif Mustafa oğlu Hacılı – “the applicant”), on 1 February 2006.
2. The applicant was represented by Mr I. Aliyev, a lawyer practising in
Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani Government (“the Government”) were
represented by their Agent, Mr Ç. Asgarov.
3. The applicant alleged, in particular, that the invalidation of the results
of the parliamentary elections in his electoral constituency had infringed his
electoral rights under Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention.
4. On 21 October 2008 the President of the First Section decided to give
notice of the application to the Government. It was also decided to rule on
the admissibility and merits of the application at the same time
(Article 29 § 1).
THE FACTS
I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CASE
5. The applicant was born in 1962 and lives in Baku. He stood for the
elections to the National Assembly (Milli Majlis) of 6 November 2005 as a
candidate of the opposition bloc Azadliq.