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    VISITED THE DETAINED DEPUTIES

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    [07:21 pm] 29 January, 2009

    As assigned by Speaker of the RA National Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan,
    NA Chief of Staff Gegham Gharibjanyan and Chief Adviser to the NA
    Speaker Victor Mnatsakanyan paid a visit January 29 to see NA Deputies
    Myasnik Malkhasyan, Sasun Mikayelyan ["Kentron" penitentiary] and
    Hakob Hakobyan [Hospital for detainees" penitentiary].

    The deputies submitted an open letter asking the NA Speaker to convene
    an NA extraordinary session with the RA Prosecutor General. They
    mentioned that their guilt was not unsubstantiated and that they
    demand the Prosecutor General to present evidence.

    Gegham Gharibjanyan and Victor Mnatsakanyan cleared things up for the
    deputies regarding their appeal. It was noted that according to article
    70 of the RA Constitution, the Speaker of the RA National Assembly
    convenes an extraordinary sitting or session by the initiative taken
    by the President of Armenia, at least one-third of the total number
    of deputies or the government.

    By the 2008 March 3 decision of the NA, the trial takes place based on
    the order established by the RA Trial Code after receiving consent for
    mediation by the RA Prosecutor General on engaging Myasnik Malkhasyan,
    Sasun Mikayelyan and Hakob Hakobyan as guilty and applying arrest as
    a means of release.

    The case is currently being investigated and must be held based on
    principles of rule of law, human rights, respect for liberties and
    dignity, release of criminal investigation, version of innocence,
    fair examination of the case and other principles.

    The NA Chief of Staff informed deputies that with the purpose of
    drafting the bill on making amendments and additions to articles 225
    and 300 of the RA Criminal Code, a Working Group has been created by
    the order of NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan, which will be assigned to
    take into account the standards set by precedents of the European
    Court of Human Rights and the issue of corresponding the principle
    of legal conviction of the law when drafting the bill.
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