DINK MURDER CASE DELIBERATELY PROTRACTED

PanARMENIAN.Net
10.12.2008 16:44 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The legal procedure on Hrant Dink’s assassination
is being constantly protracted, said the editor of the Armenian sector
of Agos newspaper.

"All we have now is the accused and his several accomplices," Bagrat
Estukyan told a news conference in Yerevan today.

"Every time the judge postpones the hearings for a long period,
obviously to leave the things as they are," he said. "Dink’s murder
shocked Turkey. People understood that Dink was assassinated for
being an Armenian. Dink was the first who was prosecuted under the
article 301."

Mr. Estukyan informed that Agos editorial staff still receives offences
and threats.

"A group of lawyers work in the office to deal with these threatening
messages," he said.