THE THIEF CRIES, "CATCH THE THIEF"
Vrezh Aharonyan

Azat Artsakh Daily
09 Dec 08
Republic of Nagorno Karabakh [NKR

What is Seda Safaryan’s mission?

By proposing lawyer Seda Safaryan’s candidacy for the fact-finding
group, the radical activists knew from the very start that they were
grossly violating the laws. They did know about it and nevertheless
made that step.

Moreover, bringing to light the factor of Tovmas Poghosyan, a lawyer
who was involved in the fact-finding group by the coalition, they
made a "shocking disclosure". In the person of David Shahnazaryan,
they announced, "You know, Gevorg Tovmasyan’s presence in the fact
finding-group is a violation, as this person is a representative of
the ruling coalition."

Before touching upon the "shocking disclosure", let’s note that apart
from being a gross violation, the membership of Stepan Safaryan’s
sister in the fact-finding group may impede the further inquest of the
"March 1" case.

Who is lawyer Seda Safaryan, and what role is vested in her?

First, Seda Safaryan is one of the lawyers who has assumed the
duty of defending different individuals accused of the March 1
disorders. That’s to say, she is an interested party.

It has been announced many a time that the group of lawyers (consisting
of 4-5 people) dealing with the "case of 70 is not the only one. There
are also some "supporting lawyers", so to say. Although, these
people are not going to act in defense of the culprits, they will,
as a matter of fact, do the same thing "stealthily", by "supporting"
the defendants, as they say.

We have reliable information that Seda Safaryan is among the
individuals who are involved in the group of the "supporting
lawyers". That’s to say, she is actually acting in support of the
interests of the accused. So, what is Seda Safaryan’s mission in the
fact-finding group?

Just see. She is, on the one hand, a member of the "support group"
dealing with the "case of 7", and on the other hand, being a involved
in the fact-finding group, she is required to know what data the
inquest body has with regard to other criminal cases concerning
those individuals. Naturally, she will submit those materials to the
support group dealing with the "case of 7" (and there is no other
way of acting in support of these individuals).

This is an obvious violation. The problem here does not only consist
in Seda Safaryan’s being an interested party from the very start,
but also in the fact that being a lawyer and defending the interests
of the accused, she possesses certain data that may impede the further
inquest of the "March 1" case. And it s no secret that some people are
now being searched, and the inquest body has many a time announced
that certain steps still have to be undertaken towards finding the
culprits."

There were also people who died as a result of firearm injuries and
people who, despite having received bodily damages, escaped from the
healthcare institutions, so it is now necessary to find them. After
all, the inquest body possesses some information on the individuals who
used arms. By the way, all these data are not published, considering
the confidentiality of the inquest.

And it is not absolutely difficult to imagine Seda Safaryan making
haste to tell the ‘congressmen’ about everything she knows. As to what
the Armenian National Congress can do, it is quite easy to imagine it
based on the preliminary information we have. Especially, considering
the fact that the latter pursued certain goals in proposing Seda
Safaryan’s candidacy for the fact-finding group.

And what’s more, they realized from the outset that there would sooner
or later be certain problems with regard to S. Safaryan’s candidacy.

They realized it and that’s why, decided to launch the attack first,
by inventing certain ‘disclosures’."

And it is not accidental that the Armenian National Congress is just
now touching upon the information posted on the Web site of the General
Prosecutor’s Office back in Ma rch (in particular, he is reported to
be conducting direct control over the legality of the inquest of the
"March 1" case and directing the court proceedings). What’s more,
the Congress is doing that by publicizing pompous headlines such us
"Congress Submits Successive Shocking Document", "What has Congress
Disclosed?", "D. Shahnazaryan Discloses the Successive Disclosure of
Congress" etc.

Oh, boy! How can the information posted on the Web site of a state
agency back in March be a disclosure for the Armenian National
Congress? If that’s true, they can make similar disclosures every
day. All they have to do is just to visit the Web site of the General
Prosecutor’s Office at

And in general, the opposition is doing whatever it wants to. And
that’s quite right. It is, actually, violating the terms of the
agreement and announcing that the coalition is breaching the law. The
latter did not raise Seda Safaryan’s question in proper time; it
didn’t say, ‘Dear friends, you don’t have the right to propose an
interested party as a member of the fact-finding group.’

It didn’t say so and remained silent, and now the Armenian National
Congress can also accuse the coalition of representing the well-known
truths as disclosures.