Eleven NKR MP’s Call For Release Of Sarkis Harspanian

ELEVEN NKR MP’S CALL FOR RELEASE OF SARKIS HATSPANIAN

20 09/08/11 | 12:35

Society

A public statement calling for the release of jailed French-Armenian
political activist and Karabakh war veteran Sarkis Hatspanian, signed
by 11 deputies of the NKR National Assembly, has been sent to the
RoA Ministry of Justice.

The 11 deputies make up one-third of the NKR legislative body. The
statement, signed by Artsakh war veterans, political figures
and intellectuals, demands that the general amnesty passed by
the Armenian parliament on July 19, 2009, also be extended to
Hatspanian who was sentenced to 3.5 years on a charge of "false
denunciation". Mr. Hatspanian has been jailed for the past nine months.

The statement points out that Mr. Hatspanian’s 84 year-old father now
suffers from kidney cancer and is at death’s door and urges Armenian
authorities to at least allow Sarkis the chance to see his ailing
father for the last time.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

http://hetq.am/en/society/hacpanya/

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS