HAJIZADE AND ABDULLAYEV v. AZERBAIJAN - 4854/10 (Article 5 - Right to liberty and security : First Section Committee)

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:

Krzysztof Wojtyczek , President , Lətif Hüseynov, Erik Wennerström , judges , and Liv Tigerstedt, Deputy Section Registrar,

the decision to give notice of the application to the Azerbaijani Government ("the Government"), represented by their Agent, Mr Ç. Əsgərov;

the observations submitted by the respondent Government and the observations submitted by the applicants in reply;

the comments submitted by the Media Legal Defence Initiative, the Media Rights Institute and the Index on Censorship, which had been granted leave to intervene by the President of the Section;