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FORMER POLITICAL PRISONER SAYS CHIEF OF PASSPORT'S DEPARTMENT CHEATED HIM
Tert.am
02.12.11
A French-Armenian and former prisoner of conscience residing in Armenia
has said the chief of the Passports Department at Police backtracked
on his promise and did not provide him with an identification document.
"I don't have any identification document and am unable to receive
one," Sargis Hatspanyan, a participant of the Karabakh War, told a
press conference on Friday.
"In June thise year Head of the Passports Department of RA Police,
Police Colonel N. Muradkhanyan said he would give me a residence
status within three weeks, but later cheated me, hinting that it was
ordered by higher instances," said he.
"It turns out that I will have to ask [President] Serzh Sargsyan for it
so that he will annul [former President] Robert Kocharyan's expulsion
decree. But I do not recognize Serzh Sargsyan as a legitimate president
and will therefore not aks him," explained Hatspanyan.
Sargis Hatspanyan moved to Armenia with his family for permanent
residence 21 years ago. He lived four years in Nagorno Karabakh and
17 years in Armenia.
Hatspanyan used to have Armenian citizenship and passport, but after
2008 post-election unrest he was arrested and spent three years behind
bars. Now in freedom, he has no ID docment and is facing the expulsion
order signed by the former President Robert Kocharyan.
"Only because I attended the rallies by the HAK [Armenian National
Congress] held on Liberty Square and actively advocated that
those rallies do not run counter the Constitution Robert Kocharyan
decided that I am posing threat to RA and decided to deport me,"
said Hatspanyan.
He also said that he is going to settle the issue solely on legal
platform and will file a complaint. The case will be heard at the
Adminsitrative Court on December 5, Hatspanyan informed.
At least ten people were killed and dozens wounded at the 2008
political unrest in Yerevan when the opposition claimed the
presidential vote had been stolen and set up a tent camp on Liberty
Square before it was disperced in a brutal riot police crackdoown
days later.
Tert.am
02.12.11
A French-Armenian and former prisoner of conscience residing in Armenia
has said the chief of the Passports Department at Police backtracked
on his promise and did not provide him with an identification document.
"I don't have any identification document and am unable to receive
one," Sargis Hatspanyan, a participant of the Karabakh War, told a
press conference on Friday.
"In June thise year Head of the Passports Department of RA Police,
Police Colonel N. Muradkhanyan said he would give me a residence
status within three weeks, but later cheated me, hinting that it was
ordered by higher instances," said he.
"It turns out that I will have to ask [President] Serzh Sargsyan for it
so that he will annul [former President] Robert Kocharyan's expulsion
decree. But I do not recognize Serzh Sargsyan as a legitimate president
and will therefore not aks him," explained Hatspanyan.
Sargis Hatspanyan moved to Armenia with his family for permanent
residence 21 years ago. He lived four years in Nagorno Karabakh and
17 years in Armenia.
Hatspanyan used to have Armenian citizenship and passport, but after
2008 post-election unrest he was arrested and spent three years behind
bars. Now in freedom, he has no ID docment and is facing the expulsion
order signed by the former President Robert Kocharyan.
"Only because I attended the rallies by the HAK [Armenian National
Congress] held on Liberty Square and actively advocated that
those rallies do not run counter the Constitution Robert Kocharyan
decided that I am posing threat to RA and decided to deport me,"
said Hatspanyan.
He also said that he is going to settle the issue solely on legal
platform and will file a complaint. The case will be heard at the
Adminsitrative Court on December 5, Hatspanyan informed.
At least ten people were killed and dozens wounded at the 2008
political unrest in Yerevan when the opposition claimed the
presidential vote had been stolen and set up a tent camp on Liberty
Square before it was disperced in a brutal riot police crackdoown
days later.