Council of Europe head wants info on political prisoners problem in Armenia

Interfax News Agency, Russia
April 18 2008

YEREVAN April 18 — Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis,
who is in Yerevan on a visit, said the problem of political prisoners
in Armenia should be considered with due account taken of the local
specific circumstances.

It is a very specific problem, Davis said at a news conference on
Thursday, when asked if there were political prisoners in Armenia.

Sometimes, journalists brand a political figure, who finds himself
behind bars, a political prisoner, although one should find out why
he had been jailed, he said.

Davis said he had met with Armenian politicians and they promised to
provide him with detailed reports on this issue.