RA GOVERNMENT HAS NOT PAID MISHA HAROUTIUNIAN COMPENSATION OF 4000 EUROS DEFINED BY DECISION OF EUROPEAN COURT AS YET

Noyan Tapan
Sep 4, 2007

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 4, NOYAN TAPAN. Lawyer Hayk Alumian applied to the
RA Minister of Justice a month ago with a request to provide him with
the official translation of the decision of the European Court on his
defendant Misha Haroutiunian. However, his request has not been met
as yet. According to Hayk Alumian, the official translation of the
court decision is necessary for applying to the RA Court of Appeal on
passing a judgement of acquittal with regard to Misha Haroutiunian on
the basis of a new circumstance. It was mentioned that a three-month
term is defined by law for submitting an application to the court.

It should be mentioned that Misha Haroutiunian was sentenced to 10
years imprisonment by the decision of the Court of First Instance of
the region of Syunik on June 19, 2002 on the charge of killing his
fellow serviceman on December 4, 1998. Misha Haroutiunian was set
free after serving the 2/3 of his punishment.

In parallel with the process of the trial of the case, the criminal
case filed against the collaborators of the military police was heard
in court, according to which Misha Haroutiunian and the two fellow
servicemen, who gave testimony against the latter, were submitted to
torture by the collaborators of the police. However, the affirmation
of the fact of torture did not serve as a basis for the chamber on
criminal and military cases of the Court of Appeal to reconsider the
criminal case. And according to the June 28 decision of the European
Court of Human Rights, it was recognized that Misha Haroutiunian has
been deprived of the right for a fair trial.

Hayk Alumian also declared that the RA government has not paid Misha
Haroutiunian the compensation sum of moral damage making 4 thousand
euros defined by the decision of the European Court as yet.