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    Protestors Plan to Appeal to International Bodies in Case of Detained
    Opposition Activist

    09.27.2013 18:09 epress.am



    Joining the weekly protest outside the general prosecutor's office
    demanding opposition activist Tigran Araqelyan's release today were
    war veterans, protesting unfair conditions since May, who also signed
    the petition to release the political prisoner Araqelyan. Armenian
    National Congress (HAK) vice-chair Aram Manukyan welcomed the move,
    emphasizing that their various issues - improved conditions for war
    veterans, exposing non-combat deaths in the army, and countering
    automated paid parking spots - cannot be resolved separately until the
    public comes together and the current authorities do not resign.

    Circulated during the demonstration was a petition to release the
    activist on bail (rather than keeping him in prison, where he has
    remained for the past two years pending a verdict), which will then be
    submitted to the Court of Appeals for its next session. Recall, an
    appeal signed by more than 100 prominent public figures, promising to
    post bail and ensure the activist does not flee the country, was
    earlier rejected by the court, which refused for the third time to
    change its earlier decision.

    Demonstraters have said their next move will be bringing international
    attention to the case. HAK will appeal to international bodies, asking
    various countries' ambassadors stationed in Armenia to monitor the
    case and ask the Armenian authorities to release the prisoner.
    During today's demonstration, Manukyan also mentioned nomination of
    the candidate for general prosecutor, saying they don't have great
    expectations that Gevorg Kostanyan will change anything in the system.

    Manukyan said that during its meeting with Kostanyan, the HAK
    parliamentary faction raised the following issues: the cases of March
    1 victims, political prisoners, and Tigran Araqelyan, a review of the
    issue of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party, eliminating the
    practice of remand or pre-trial detention instead of bail in 95% of
    cases, and the fight against corruption.

    "In any case, we have no hope that he will resolve these issues. We
    have no illusion that in this country there could be a prosecutor who
    can solve these matters. We raised those issues as a matter of
    courtesy, and we've agreed to get the answers to those questions in a
    short period of time," said Manukyan.

    http://www.epress.am/en/2013/09/27/protestors-plan-to-appeal-to-international-bodies-in-case-of-detained-opposition-activist-video.html

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