OFFICE OF THE PROSECUTOR GENERAL CHANGED BUT DID NOT RELEASE
LRAGIR.AM
15:57:13 – 01/04/2009
On April 1, continued the court hearing of the "case of seven" which
had been prolonged for a week through the petition of the accusing
party in order to change the accusation towards the oppositional
leaders charged in the "case of seven" in connection with the
amendments to the Articles 225 and 300 of the Armenian Crime Code. This
circumstance created grounds to think that considering the PACE 1643
resolution the government may change the charges of the "defendants"
and may set them free. But these predictions did not come true. The
accusing party merely changed the charge, but the "defendants" are
still deprived of their freedom. In this regard the reporters asked a
question to the member of the parliamentary commission to study March
1, ARF Dashnaktsutyun candidate for Mayor Artsvik Minasyan. Trying
to find out whether this step of the office of the prosecutor general
after the amendments to the Crime Code is sufficient to consider that
Armenia fulfilled the demands of the PACE 1643 resolution and solved
the question on the political prisoners. Artsvik Minasyan answered
that he thinks this step is insufficient to consider accomplished
the resolution demands.