The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Armenian government to pay 2,500 euros ($3,000) in compensatory damages to a prominent lawyer more than six years after he was arrested on highly controversial charges.
The human rights lawyer, Vahe Grigorian, on Tuesday described the ruling as a "slap in the face of Armenia's law-enforcement system" and said he will now step up his efforts to be formally cleared of wrongdoing.
Grigorian was arrested in October 2005, charged with fraud and forgery and kept in pre-trial detention for almost five months after helping several families in Yerevan to file lawsuits with the European Court. The clients of his Right law firm were among hundreds of families evicted from their old houses as part of a massive redevelopment in the city center.
Armenian News
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