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    VAHAGN CHAKHALYAN UNDER DEATH THREAT

    http://www.lragir.am/src/index.php?id=lrah os||society&pid=14976
    13:33:48 - 24/08/2009

    Tchobanyan Institute, France, has voiced concern regarding the
    recent developments relating to Vahagn Chakhalyan, a Javakheti-based
    Armenian political activist. It wrote a letter to the president of
    the France-Georgia friendship group of the French parliament Daniel
    Paul. The letter alarms that Vahagn Chakhalyan, the leader of the
    democratic movement United Javakheti was arrested in July 2008 in
    Georgia and is under threat of death. The letter informs that the
    leader of the civic movement is in prison for demanding a status
    of administrative language for the Armenian language. The letter
    states referring to reliable sources that the Georgian government
    may use violence against Vahagn Chakhalyan, especially considering
    that on July 31 Chakhalyan was taken from penitentiary 8 of Tbilisi to
    penitentiary 2 of Rustavi where it is easier to organize a provocation,
    meanwhile the appeal against his verdict is in process.

    The letter urges the president of the French-Georgian friendship
    group to urge his Georgian counterparts to guarantee the security of
    Chakhalyan, as well as his right to fair trial, enabling his advocate
    to defend him.
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