Armenian authorities announce amnesty for draft dodgers

Arminfo
26 Apr 05

YEREVAN

The Armenian Prosecutor-General’s Office is closing criminal cases
initiated under Part 3 of Article 327 of the Criminal Code – dodging
compulsory military service in the Armenian army.

Cases that are being considered by the prosecutor’s office will be
dropped if draft dodgers voluntarily come to military enlistment
offices for the spring call-up, the press service of the
Prosecutor-General’s Office has told Arminfo news agency. But it did
not give the number of the people facing the charges.

The spring call-up is to start on 2 May, in accordance with the
Armenian president’s decree on the spring military call-up and
discharge of servicemen in 2005.