On June 6, the permanent representative of the Armenian republic in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and the International Court of Justice Yeghishe Kirakosyan stated that Armenia has submitted a second interstate complaint against Azerbaijan. 

“The complaint concerns illegal trials organized in Baku against Armenian prisoners of war,” the lawyer explained. Documents on the rights of persons violated by the Azerbaijani side, including illegal imprisonment, captured during and after the 44-day war in Karabakh in the fall of 2020, have been presented to the ECHR.

The European Court accepted the statement of claim of Armenia for proceedings. It is expected that public discussions will be held in connection with the complaint in 2023.

In November 2021, Caucasus Watch reported that Mamikon Khojoyan and Karen Petrosyan, two citizens of Armenia's border villages, received rulings on their case from the European Court of Human Rights. They were imprisoned and tortured in Azerbaijani territory in 2014. The Court ordered Azerbaijan to pay 40,000 euros in each case.

In February 2021, the Armenian government filed the first interstate complaint against Azerbaijan with the ECtHR. It pointed to violations of the rights of the inhabitants of Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia to life, inviolability, property, private and family life, education, and some other rights. Yerevan then charged Baku with torture and other manifestations of inhuman treatment of prisoners of war and civilians captured because of hostilities in the Karabakh conflict zone in September-November 2020.