Gahramanli and Oil Workers Rights Protection Organisation v. Azerbaijan

FIFTH SECTION

Applications nos. 74309/14 and 74598/14 Mirvari GAHRAMANLI against Azerbaijan and OIL WORKERS RIGHTS PROTECTION ORGANISATION against Azerbaijan

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 21 March 2019 as a Committee composed of:

Síofra O’Leary, President, Mārtiņš Mits, Lado Chanturia, judges,

and Liv Tigerstedt, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above applications lodged on 19 November 2014,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The applicant in application no. 74309/14, Ms Mirvari Gahramanli, was born in 1946. The applicant company in application no. 74598/14, Oil Workers Rights Protection Organisation, is a non-governmental organisation established in 1996 in Azerbaijan. Ms Mirvari Gahramanli is also the chairman of the applicant company.

They were represented before the Court by Mr K. Bagirov, a lawyer based in Azerbaijan.

The applicants’ complaints under Articles 11 and 18 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention concerning the freezing of their bank accounts were communicated to the Azerbaijani Government (“the Government”).

By a letter dated 13 December 2018, the applicants informed the Registry that they wanted to withdraw their applications to the Court since the matter raised in applications nos. 74309/14 and 74598/14 had been resolved.

THE LAW

Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single decision.

In the light of the foregoing, and in the absence of any special circumstances regarding respect for the rights guaranteed by the Convention and the Protocols thereto, the Court, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, considers that it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the applications.

Accordingly, the cases should be struck out of the list.

For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,

Decides to join the applications;

Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases.

Done in English and notified in writing on 11 April 2019.

Liv Tigerstedt Síofra O’Leary Acting Deputy Registrar President