"NATIONAL UNITY OATH" PARTY DEMANDS TO SET FREE AND GRANT RA
CITIZENSHIP TO ZHIRAYR SEFILIAN

YEREVAN, JANUARY 11, NOYAN TAPAN. The Council of the "National Unity
Oath" demands to immediately set free by a special decree Jirayr
Sefilian, granting him patent of a citizen of the Republic of Armenia
starting from 1991. This is said in the open letter of the party
Council addressed to the RA President. It is mentioned in the letter
that Zh.Sefilian’s arrest is "a plot hatched by the legal bodies of
the Republic of Armenia against self-defence of the Fatherland by
which they again deprive of authority our country in the eyes of the
population of Armenia and Armenians, they offend unpunished our
people’s dignity and more deprive the Republic of Armenia of the
international authority, having already been deprived." To recap,
Zhirayr Sefilian, the former commander of the Shoushi special
battalion, coordinator of the "Defence of Liberated Territories"
public initiative, citizen of Lebanon, was arrested in Yerevan on
December 10 of the last year. Vardan Malkhasian, a member of the
"Hayrenik ev Pativ" (Fatherland and Honour) party political council, a
member of the "Armenian Volunteers’ Unity" initiative was also
arrested on the same day, in his own house. They are accused of
stating public calls addressed to changing by violence the RA
Constitution order (Article 301 of the RA Criminal Code). The Court of
First Instance of the communities of Kentron and Nork Marash of
Yerevan satisfied on December 12, 2006, the mediations of the RA
National Security Service to choose arrest as a precautionary measures
of 2-month term towards Zh.Sefilian’s and V.Malkhasian.