The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) today published its new annual report and statistics for 2019.

In 2019, Armenia has remained in the “top ten” of the countries with the largest number of applications pending at the European Court of Human Rights.

For Armenia, there were 1,631 cases pending, a small decrease (by 14%) as compared to 1,901 in 2018.  

The countries with the highest number of pending cases pending were:

1. Russia (approximately 15,037 cases, or around 1/4 of the total and increased by 22% comparing to 11,750 cases in 2018)
2. Turkey (approximately 9,236 cases, or around 15,5% of the total and increase by 23% comparing to 2018)
3. Ukraine (approximately 8,827 cases, or around 15% of the total and increase by 18% comparing to 2018)
4. Romania (approximately 7,879 cases, or around 13% of the total and decrease by 7% comparing to 2018)
5. Italy (approximately 3,071 cases, or around 5% of the total and decrease by 25% comparing to 2018)

Between them, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine accounted for more than 50% of the 59,800 pending cases.