FORMER DEPUTY PROSECUTOR GENERAL WAS AGAINST AMNESTY

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
02.07.2009 22:44 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The rally of the Armenian National Congress has just
finished at Matenadaran where some 6000 opposition supporters gathered.

Addressing the demonstrators, former deputy prosecutor general Gagik
Jahangiryan, who was pardoned lately, said he was against the amnesty.

"Amnesty applies to those who committed crimes. We were sentenced
not for crimes but for our political views," he said, adding that
the authorities hold people hostage and violate laws.

"This amnesty is not the generosity of those ruling the country but
the result of popular struggle. We will fight unless all political
prisoners are released," Jahangiryan said.