Armenian Court of Appeal upholds ruling to keep nationalist leader in custody

Noyan Tapan news agency
4 Feb 05

YEREVAN

The Court of Appeal for criminal and military cases has rejected the
appeal on changing the restraining measure against the chairman of the
Armenian Aryan Union (AAU), Armen Avetisyan, the member of the AAU,
Mar Martirosyan, has told our correspondent.

He also said that the AAU will appeal to Armenian Prosecutor-General
Agvan Ovsepyan and submit a petition by the deputies of the Armenian
National Assembly, Viktor Dallakyan and Manuk Gasparyan, politicians
and representatives of the intelligentsia, as well as signatures in
favour of changing the restraining measure.

[Avetisyan was arrested under a ruling of the court of Yerevan’s
Kentron and Nork-Marash communities for inciting national, racial and
religious hatred and is being charged with propagating hatred between
Armenians and Jews in public and in the media between 2003 and 2005.]