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SASUN MIKAELYAN FREED
Tert.am
27.05.11
Former political prisoner Sasun Mikaelyan who was serving his time
at the hospital for inmates has been released.
Friends had been waiting for him outside the building since Friday
morning.
The people in his native village have prepared a stage for the
opposition activist and are looking for his return to organize a
demonstration.
Another jailed activist - the editor in chief of the Haykakan Zhamanak
daily, Nikol Pashinyan - is expected to be freed later today. A crowd
of people has gathered outside the Artik penitentiary, waiting for him.
Both Mikaelyan and Pashinyan were convicted in connection with the
March 1, 2008 political turmoil that followed disputed presidential
election in Armenia. The decision to release them comes after the
parliament adopted amnesty on the occasion of the 20th anniversary
of Armenia's independence.
From: A. Papazian
Tert.am
27.05.11
Former political prisoner Sasun Mikaelyan who was serving his time
at the hospital for inmates has been released.
Friends had been waiting for him outside the building since Friday
morning.
The people in his native village have prepared a stage for the
opposition activist and are looking for his return to organize a
demonstration.
Another jailed activist - the editor in chief of the Haykakan Zhamanak
daily, Nikol Pashinyan - is expected to be freed later today. A crowd
of people has gathered outside the Artik penitentiary, waiting for him.
Both Mikaelyan and Pashinyan were convicted in connection with the
March 1, 2008 political turmoil that followed disputed presidential
election in Armenia. The decision to release them comes after the
parliament adopted amnesty on the occasion of the 20th anniversary
of Armenia's independence.
From: A. Papazian