On 29 November 2007 the court sentenced the state of Azerbaijan to pay the applicant 12,000 EUR for non-pecuniary damages and 2,090 EUR for costs and expenses. Later activities Hummatov continued to campaign in exile for the rights of the Talysh people. In September 2013, he visited the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh, two decades after confronting Karabakh and Armenian forces on the battlefield. He met with university students in Stepanakert, where he criticized the current Azerbaijani government and called for a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, stating "I believe that we must do everything to establish peace in the region so that our beloved children live, create and study in peaceful conditions." Hummatov traveled to Karabakh from Armenia, where he inaugurated a graduate program of Talysh studies at the Yerevan State University on 24 September 2013. Personal life Hummatov was married to Sudaba Rasulova; they had two sons. According to Rasulova, neither she nor her children know the Talysh language, and speak only Azerbaijani at home. Rasulova stated that she was unaware of Hummatov's plans to visit Armenia, and she does not understand why her husband traveled there. Hummatov died on 22 December 2022. References External links Republic of Azerbaijan, report, Amnesty International, 2002 Written question E-0639/99, by Hanja Maij-Weggen (PPE) to the Commission, Official Journal of the European Communities, 1999 Azerbaijan in a stir over political prisoner, BBC, 2003 1948 births 2022 deaths Azerbaijani people of Talysh descent Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights European Court of Human Rights cases involving Azerbaijan Recipients of Azerbaijani presidential pardons People convicted of treason Azerbaijani prisoners sentenced to death Prisoners sentenced to death by Azerbaijan Azerbaijani prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Azerbaijan Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Azerbaijani Social Democratic Party politicians Azerbaijani people of the Nagorno-Karabakh War Azerbaijani colonels Azerbaijan Technical University alumni Talysh people The National Talysh Movement