MORE THAN 200 INTELLECTUALS OF ARMENIA AND LEBANON ADDRESS TO RA
AUTHORITIES, WITH REQUEST TO ANNOUNCE AMNESTY TO ARSEN ARTSRUNI

YEREVAN, MARCH 31, NOYAN TAPAN. More than 200 cultural, educational
and public figures of Armenia and Lebanon addressed an open letter to
the RA President, National Assembly Speaker and Prime Minister, asking
to announce amnesty to Lebanese Armenian Arsen Artsruni, sentenced
to death on so called “Dro’s” case in 1994. According to the authors
of the letter, “imprisonement of 11 years impaired family father,
modest husband, patricotic intellectual Arsen Artsruni’s health
state, threatening his gradually dicreasing hopes for tomorrow’s
day and living it fully.” It is mentioned that the issue, starting
from 1994, made anxious numerous representatives of intellectuals of
Armenia and Diaspora: the Catholicos of All Armenians, late Garegin I,
Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I, late Prime Minister
of Lebanon Rafic Hariri, French Armenian historian Claude Mutafian,
etc. have addressed to the RA authorities with the same request
since 1994. People having different political orientation signed
the letter: poet Silva Kaputikian, actors Sos Sargsian and Vladimir
Abajian, director Vahe Shahverdian, film producer Vigen Chaldranian,
painter Robert Elibekian, writer-publicist Zori Balayan, academician
Rafayel Ghazarian and Lenser Aghalovian, Archbishop Varuzhan Herkelian,
Bishop Narik Aliemezian, Bishop Tirayr Panosian.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress