Armenian opposition member to appeal to European Court over arrest

Aravot web site, Yerevan
8 Sep 04

Text of unattributed report by Armenian newspaper Aravot web site
on 8 September headlined “The appeal to the Council of Europe has to
be supplemented”

8 September: The head of the Armavir territorial branch of the National
Democratic Union [NDU], Lavrentiy Kirakosyan, who was released from
Nubarashen prison ahead of schedule on 30 August, is planning to
add fresh facts to his lawsuit submitted to the European Court of
Human Rights.

We should say that Kirakosyan was sentenced to 18 months in prison
on charges of possessing drugs and served almost five months in jail.

In connection with his administrative arrest during the elections in
2003, he appealed to the European Court and now he is going to send
the materials of the “fully fabricated” case on drugs to Strasbourg.