ADVOCACY RALLY ORGANIZED IN PARIS FOR SILVA HAROUTUNIAN

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
25.06.2009 13:33 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Advocacy Rally was organized in Paris for Silva
Haroutunian, condemned for 3 years of imprisonment by Iranian
authorities for espionage and activities against the government. As
the French journalist Jean Eckian told a PanARMENIAN.Net, Armenians
and Iranians took part in the advocacy rally demanding to release
innocently accused Silva Haroutunian. US journalist Roxana Saberi
also took part in the rally, she previously was condemned to 8 years
of imprisonment, but pardoned by the Iranian authorities.

On June 26, 2008 34-year-old Silva Haroutunian, a physician and
humanitarian worker for IREX in the sphere of mother and child care
in Iran, arrested in Tehran. She was accused for incentive to "soft
revolution" and condemned for 3 years of imprisonment.