EX-SOLICITOR GENERAL OF ARMENIA GAGIK JHANGIRYAN SET FREE

ArmInfo
2009-06-23 19:15:00

ArmInfo. In compliance with the decision of the Armenian National
Assembly ‘On Amnesty Announcement’, the ex-Solicitor General of
Armenia Gagik Jhangiryan has been set free.

‘I promise my friends in custody that we will immediately set them
free’, Jhangiryan said when leaving ‘Kentron’ penitentiary. As regards
the amnesty announcement, he is sure it was made under pressure of the
national movement and European structures. He called himself a soldier
of the Armenian National Congress who is going to further follow ANC.

G. Jhangiryan was arrested after the presidential elections in 2008
in the period of active opposition rallies. On March 23 2009 Kentron
and Nork-Marash communities First Instance Court sentenced Jhangiryan
to 3 years of imprisonment. He was charged with Article 316 part 1.