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DAUGHTER OF HRACHYA HARUTYUNYAN ASKS ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES TO SOLICIT FOR HER FATHER'S EXTRADITION TO ARMENIA
by Marianna Lazarian
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Wednesday, July 17, 18:05
I am not aware where my father is and how he is, says Lilit
Harutyunyan, daughter of Hrachya Harutyunyan, Kamaz driver arrested
in Russia for causing a bus accident near Podolsk.
She told journalists on Wednesday that her father was in shock,
otherwise, he would not have appeared in court in a colored housecoat.
"I think he needs a psychologist," Lilit said.
She asked the Armenian authorities to solicit for her father's
extradition to Armenia.
"If he is guilty, let him serve his term in his own country. When in
the 1990s Armenia was in the state of war and needed help, my father
volunteered to the front. For more than a month he was encircled and
when back home, he did not recognize even his relatives. Now it is
he who needs help," Lilit said.
She said that her father was a good driver. "Before going to Russia,
he drove similar vehicles and did it well. It was a brake failure. He
tried his best to avoid the collision but he failed. I fully share
the grief of the families of the killed," Lilit said.
Lawyer Taron Simonyan said that by bringing Hrachya Harutyunyan to
court in a colored housecoat and slippers the Russian law enforcers
violated his human rights and humiliated his human dignity.
The fact that Harutyunyan was brought to court in a colored housecoat
has raised a wave of discontent in Armenia and among the Armenians
living in Russia.
On July 13 Harutyunyan's Kamaz drove into a bus with 64 passengers. 18
people were killed. On July 15 the Tver court of Moscow ruled that
Harutyunyan should be in custody till Sept 13. The Armenian may face
seven years in jail if found guilty.
From: A. Papazian
by Marianna Lazarian
http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=E4F5A270-EEE9-11E2-A5CA0EB7C0D21663
Wednesday, July 17, 18:05
I am not aware where my father is and how he is, says Lilit
Harutyunyan, daughter of Hrachya Harutyunyan, Kamaz driver arrested
in Russia for causing a bus accident near Podolsk.
She told journalists on Wednesday that her father was in shock,
otherwise, he would not have appeared in court in a colored housecoat.
"I think he needs a psychologist," Lilit said.
She asked the Armenian authorities to solicit for her father's
extradition to Armenia.
"If he is guilty, let him serve his term in his own country. When in
the 1990s Armenia was in the state of war and needed help, my father
volunteered to the front. For more than a month he was encircled and
when back home, he did not recognize even his relatives. Now it is
he who needs help," Lilit said.
She said that her father was a good driver. "Before going to Russia,
he drove similar vehicles and did it well. It was a brake failure. He
tried his best to avoid the collision but he failed. I fully share
the grief of the families of the killed," Lilit said.
Lawyer Taron Simonyan said that by bringing Hrachya Harutyunyan to
court in a colored housecoat and slippers the Russian law enforcers
violated his human rights and humiliated his human dignity.
The fact that Harutyunyan was brought to court in a colored housecoat
has raised a wave of discontent in Armenia and among the Armenians
living in Russia.
On July 13 Harutyunyan's Kamaz drove into a bus with 64 passengers. 18
people were killed. On July 15 the Tver court of Moscow ruled that
Harutyunyan should be in custody till Sept 13. The Armenian may face
seven years in jail if found guilty.
From: A. Papazian