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    ECTHR IN FAVOR OF SEFILYAN

    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country27602.html
    Published: 10:25:56 - 04/10/2012

    The European Court of Human Rights judged Zhirair Sefilyan's
    application against the Republic of Armenia. The court ruled just
    satisfaction of EUR 6,000 for his detention for making calls for a
    violent overthrow of the government during a speech he had given at
    a meeting organized by the Union of Armenian Volunteers.

    Zhirayr Sefilyan, a Lebanese citizen who settled in Armenia over two
    decades ago, is due to receive the financial compensation more than
    four years after completing a two-year prison sentence given for
    allegedly illegal arms possession.

    Zhirayr Sefilyan and another well-known veteran of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    war were arrested in December 2006 after holding the founding congress
    of their Union of Armenian Volunteers, a pressure strongly opposed
    to any territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.

    Armenia's National Security Service claimed they planned to mount
    an armed uprising against the government ahead of the May 2007
    parliamentary elections. Both men denied the charges as politically
    motivated.

    Sefilyan was cleared of the coup charge during his subsequent trial.

    But he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for illegally possessing
    a pistol which he claimed to have received as a gift from a former
    commander of the Karabakh Armenian army.

    In a verdict announced this week, the European Court of Human
    Rights court ruled that Sefilyan was kept under pre-trial arrest
    for eight months without sufficient legal grounds. It said the NSS
    also wiretapped the oppositionist's phone conversations in the months
    leading up to his arrest, in violation of the European Convention on
    Human Rights.

    Sefilyan's lawyer, Vahe Grigoryan, portrayed the ruling on Wednesday
    as further proof that the Armenian authorities handled the case with
    "disgraceful violations" of the due process. Grigoryan said former
    president Robert Kocharyan must bear "political responsibility" for
    ordering his client's arrest. The lawyer said he will also appeal to
    President Serzh Sargsyan and state prosecutors to sack law-enforcement
    officials who dealt with the case.

    Sefilyan supported former President Levon Ter-Petrosyan in the February
    2008 presidential election. His organization was among about two
    dozen opposition groups that joined an opposition alliance set up by
    Ter-Petrosyan after the election. Sefilyan broke with that alliance
    and formed a new opposition group, the Sardarapat movement, in 2009.

    The small group stands for more radical methods of political struggle.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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