ACCORDING TO LEVON TER-PETROSIAN, RELEASING THOSE ARRESTED ON CASE OF MARCH 1 INCIDENTS IS A MATTER OF WEEKS
Noyan Tapan
May 25, 2009
YEREVAN, MAY 25, NOYAN TAPAN. "Release of political prisoners is
already a matter of weeks," first RA President Levon Ter-Petrosian
stated at the March 24 preelection meeting. According to him,
if the people manifests itself correctly, the political prisoners
will be free very soon, the day following Yerevan Council of Elders
elections. However, as L. Ter-Petrosian added, they will be released
under any election results. In his words, PACE Co-rapporteurs feel
deceived, because though the Armenian authorities made some amendments
to the Criminal Code, the political prisoners remained in prisons.
L. Ter-Petrosian applied to oligarches calling them for not hindering
the Armenian National Congress to win Yerevan Council of Elders
elections. "All the same, the people will win and you will be punished:
don’t act so to be eternally damned by people," he said.