CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 12 avril 2021

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .s379BC09C { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s10950C61 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt; text-align:justify } .s5E1364CA { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:14pt } .s339D85E6 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s665E407E { margin-top:66pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s5FFF0A75 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:7pt } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .s76CF415B { page-break-before:always; clear:both } .s65E06E64 { margin-top:66pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .sF4EFF253 { border-spacing:1.5pt } .s90CF2D81 { border-style:solid; border-width:0.75pt; padding:0.38pt; vertical-align:middle } .s2EF62ED2 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt } Published on 3 May 2021   FIFTH SECTION Applications nos. 29742/18 and 42506/19 Mahammad Ibadullah oglu MUSTAFAYEV against Azerbaijan and Jeyhun Shahid oglu SULEYMANOV against Azerbaijan lodged on 8 June 2018 and 8 July 2019 respectively communicated on 12 April 2021 SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASES The applicants’ acquittal in the criminal proceedings instituted against them rendered their detention unlawful within the meaning of domestic law entitling them, under domestic law, to a compensation for unlawful detention. The applicant in application no. 29742/18 was awarded 5,000   Azerbaijani manats (AZN) (at the material time approximately 2,500   euros (EUR)) for his unlawful detention for a period of one year, six months and twenty-one days, in the domestic proceedings ended by a final decision of the Supreme Court dated 20   December 2017. The applicant in application no. 42506/19 was awarded AZN 8,000 (at the material time approximately EUR 4,000) for his unlawful detention for a period of two years, seven months and two days, in the domestic proceedings ended by a final decision of the Supreme Court dated 28   December 2018. Relying on Article 5 § 5 of the Convention, the applicants complain that the negligible amounts of the compensations awarded for their unlawful detention constituted a breach of their right to enforceable compensation for unlawful detention.     QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES Did the applicants have an enforceable right to compensation for their unlawful detention, as required by Article 5 § 5 of the Convention? In particular, were the amounts of the compensations made by the domestic courts sufficient to consider that the right in question was practical and effective?   APPENDIX   No. Application no. Lodged on Applicant Year of Birth Place of Residence Nationality Represented by 1. 29742/18 08/06/2018 Mahammad Ibadullah oglu Mustafayev 1975 Balakan Azerbaijani Aynura Mustafayeva 2. 42506/19 08/07/2019 Jeyhun Shahid oglu Suleymanov 1981 Oguz Azerbaijani Mubariz Yolchuyev