CHIEF PROSECUTOR VOWS TO PROTEST IF PASHINYAN IS NOT PARDONED

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05:59 pm | February 24, 2010

Politics

RA Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan announced today that an amnesty
for Haykakan Zhamanak daily Editor Nikol Pashinyan would be granted
only after the case had gone through the upper instances and a final
verdict had been reached.

"An amnesty is a statutory requirement but not at this stage. Only
when we have a final verdict and sentence of the Appellate Court or the
Cassation Court, shall an amnesty be granted. If it isn’t granted, the
Prosecutor’s Office will dispute the matter," announced Mr. Hovsepyan.

Remind that a Yerevan court had sentenced Nikol Pashinyan to seven
years’ imprisonment. On February 19 Pashinyan’s advocates took the
case to the Court of Appeals.

In reply to A1+ whether the Prosecutor’s Office had taken any measures
to disclose the events of March 1-2, Mr. Hovsepyan said they had done
everything possible to disclose the criminals. "If you take and study
the pretrial cases you will see that large-scale work has been done
in this direction," said the chief prosecutor.

"We seek public support for the full disclose of the events but so
far we have found no response," he added.