Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 May 2018
On December 5, 2017, the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers (Committee) issued an interim resolution concerning the European Court of Human Rights case of Ilgar Mammadov v. Azerbaijan. In this resolution, the Committee, for the first time ever, launched infringement proceedings against a member state of the European Convention of Human Rights (Convention).
1 Committee of Ministers, Execution of the Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights Ilgar Mammadov Against Azerbaijan, Interim Resolution CM/ResDH(2017)429 (Dec. 5, 2017) [hereinafter Interim Resolution].
2 Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms art. 46(1), Nov. 4, 1950, 213 UNTS 221 [hereinafter Convention].
3 Id. art. 46(2).
4 All member states of the Council of Europe are also parties to the Convention.
5 Hirst v. The United Kingdom (No. 2), (2005) Eur. Ct. H.R. 681.
6 See Marina Aksenova, Anchugov and Gladkov Is Not Enforceable: The Russian Constitutional Court Opines in Its First ECtHR Implementation Case, Opinio Juris (Apr. 25, 2016), at http://opiniojuris.org/2016/04/25/anchugov-and-gladkov-is-not-enforceable-the-russian-constitutional-court-opines-in-its-first-ecthr-implementation-case/.
7 Explanatory Report to Protocol No. 14 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Amending the Control System of the Convention, CETS 194, May 13, 2004, § 100.
8 Convention, supra note 2, art. 46(4).
9 Ilgar Mammadov v. Azerbaijan, App. No. 15172/13 (Eur. Ct. H.R., May 22, 2014) [hereinafter Mammadov].
10 Ilgar Mammadov v. Azerbaijan (No. 2), App. No. 919/15 (Eur. Ct. H.R., Nov. 16, 2017).
11 Interim Resolution CM/ResDH(2017)379, Oct. 25, 2017.
12 Interim Resolution, supra note 1, appendix.
13 Interim Resolution, supra note 1, ¶¶ a, d, f.
14 Mammadov, supra note 9, ¶ 137.
15 Mammadov, supra note 9, ¶ 143.
16 Interim Resolution, supra note 1, ¶¶ b, c.
17 Papamichalopoulos v. Greece (Art. 50), (1993) Eur. Ct. H.R. 28, ¶ 34.
18 Interim Resolution, supra note 1, ¶ f.
19 Convention, supra note 2, art. 46(5).