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ATTORNEY CONSIDERS SHANT HARUTYUNYAN'S CASE POLITICAL BUT WANTS TO TAKE IT TO EUROPEAN COURT
06.26.2014 20:47 epress.am
Ara Zakaryan, representing the accused Tigran Petrosyan and Armen
Hovhannisyan in the case of Shant Harutyunyan and the other 13 men
arrested with him on November 5, 2013, believes that by providing legal
assistance he doesn't deny that their actions should be considered
on political grounds.
"Every person has the right to defense in the way that he wants and
considers right. I've consulted with my clients, and they've given
[their] approval to all my actions. They're doing a political campaign,
and they're not pinning great hopes on Armenia's courts.
It's just that [we] have to exhaust [all of] Armenia's courts, in order
to apply to the European Court [of Human Rights]," he told Epress.am.
During yesterday's trial, Zakaryan submitted a motion to release his
clients on bail; reading that motion lasted about half an hour. Shant
Harutyunyan resented the motion and, addressing the attorney, said:
"You definitely want to make this political process fail?"
He said that there's no need to cite the Justice Council's decisions,
since the Council is subject to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
Addressing Tigran Petrosyan, Shant Harutyunyan said that the attorney
should say that they're organizing a protest, since demonstrators
were killed on March 1 (2008) and those responsible got off scot-free.
"Let him get up and say that these guys grabbed sticks because they
saw they were killing people and they remain unpunished -- not talk
about the Justice Council. Isn't Serzh [Sargsyan] the Justice Council?
I won't allow this to become a criminal trial [...] If you believe
those bodies, then you believe the justice of Serzh Sargsyan,"
said Harutyunyan.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/06/26/attorney-considers-shant-harutyunyans-case-political-but-wants-to-take-it-to-european-court.html
From: Baghdasarian
06.26.2014 20:47 epress.am
Ara Zakaryan, representing the accused Tigran Petrosyan and Armen
Hovhannisyan in the case of Shant Harutyunyan and the other 13 men
arrested with him on November 5, 2013, believes that by providing legal
assistance he doesn't deny that their actions should be considered
on political grounds.
"Every person has the right to defense in the way that he wants and
considers right. I've consulted with my clients, and they've given
[their] approval to all my actions. They're doing a political campaign,
and they're not pinning great hopes on Armenia's courts.
It's just that [we] have to exhaust [all of] Armenia's courts, in order
to apply to the European Court [of Human Rights]," he told Epress.am.
During yesterday's trial, Zakaryan submitted a motion to release his
clients on bail; reading that motion lasted about half an hour. Shant
Harutyunyan resented the motion and, addressing the attorney, said:
"You definitely want to make this political process fail?"
He said that there's no need to cite the Justice Council's decisions,
since the Council is subject to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
Addressing Tigran Petrosyan, Shant Harutyunyan said that the attorney
should say that they're organizing a protest, since demonstrators
were killed on March 1 (2008) and those responsible got off scot-free.
"Let him get up and say that these guys grabbed sticks because they
saw they were killing people and they remain unpunished -- not talk
about the Justice Council. Isn't Serzh [Sargsyan] the Justice Council?
I won't allow this to become a criminal trial [...] If you believe
those bodies, then you believe the justice of Serzh Sargsyan,"
said Harutyunyan.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/06/26/attorney-considers-shant-harutyunyans-case-political-but-wants-to-take-it-to-european-court.html
From: Baghdasarian