{"id":3102,"date":"2024-12-13T10:16:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T08:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/2024\/12\/case-of-hasmik-khachatryan-v-armenia\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T10:16:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T08:16:13","slug":"case-of-hasmik-khachatryan-v-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/2024\/12\/case-of-hasmik-khachatryan-v-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"CASE OF HASMIK KHACHATRYAN v. ARMENIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a significant ECHR decision concerning domestic violence in Armenia. The key aspects are: <strong>Essence of the decision:<\/strong><br \/>    The Court found Armenia violated Article 3 of the Convention (prohibition of torture and inhuman treatment) due to its failure to protect a domestic violence victim and provide adequate legal remedies. The case involved a woman who suffered severe physical abuse from her common-law spouse, with authorities failing to protect her from further violence during criminal proceedings and the perpetrator ultimately avoiding punishment through amnesty. <strong>Main provisions:<\/strong><br \/>    1. The Court established that Article 3 imposes a positive obligation on states to enable victims of domestic violence to claim compensation for non-pecuniary damage from perpetrators.<br \/>    2. The Court found Armenia&#8217;s legal framework at the time inadequate for protecting domestic violence victims, as it lacked specific domestic violence provisions and protective measures.<br \/>    3. The Court criticized the domestic courts&#8217; formalistic approach in reclassifying the crime to a lesser offense and applying amnesty, effectively removing any deterrent effect. <strong>Key implications:<\/strong><br \/>    1. States must provide comprehensive legal protection for domestic violence victims, including specific criminal provisions and protective measures.<br \/>    2. Victims must have access to compensation for non-pecuniary damage from perpetrators.<br \/>    3. Amnesty should not be applied in cases of serious domestic violence.<br \/>    4. Courts must consider the full context of domestic violence when handling such cases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hudoc.echr.coe.int\/?i=001-238376\"><strong>Full text by link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a significant ECHR decision concerning domestic violence in Armenia. The key aspects are: Essence of the decision: The Court found Armenia violated Article 3 of the Convention (prohibition of torture and inhuman treatment) due to its failure to protect a domestic violence victim and provide adequate legal remedies. The case involved a woman&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[129,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-echr-decisions","category-eu-legislation-important","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":{"patreon-level":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}