Bayatyan v Armenia: Third Party intervention to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights
These comments are submitted by Amnesty International, Conscience and Peace Tax International, Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers), International Commission of Jurists, and War Resisters' International. The present submission draws substantially on the interpretation by the UN Human Rights Committee of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and by other international and regional bodies of the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion in relation to conscientious objection to military service.