PREVENTIVE PUNISHMENT TOWARDS VAHAGN CHAKHALIAN CHANGED

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Oct 30 2006

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 30, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. On October 30,
Vahagn Chakhalian, Presidency member of the United Javakhk democratic
bloc and Chairman of the Javakhk Youth Sport and Cultural Union,
was released from the isolation cell of the National Security
Service. The Appeal Court on Criminal and Military Cases chose as
a preventive punishment a signature on not leaving the country. To
recap, V.Chakhalian had been arrested on October 11 on the charge of
crossing RA state frontier illegally and was in the isolation cell of
the National Security Service. Arrest had been chosen as a preventive
punishment towards him by the decision of the first instance court.