On 18 October, the European Court of Human Rights announced a ruling in the case “Hovhannesian and Karapetyan v. Armenia”. The applicants in the case were Armenian citizens Mikayel Hovhannisyan and Svetlana Karapetyan, whose sons R. Hovhannisyan and A. Sargsyan were killed while serving in Garabagh. Both soldiers were conscripted from Armenia in 2009 and 2008 and sent to serve in a military unit located in Garabagh, then occupied by Armenia, Azernews reports.
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