ArmInfo. Armenian Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan appealed to the Constitutional Court, challenging certain provisions of the law "On Amnesty." It is  reported by the press service of the Ombudsman.

According to the source, the examination of complaints addressed to  the Ombudsman showed that there are no regulations in the law "On  Amnesty", which would clearly record the grounds for applying the  amnesty act. The matter, in particular, concerns the jurisdiction of  the judicial authority responsible for execution, when the judicial  act is appealed to a higher authority, but the latter has not yet  decided on the issue of taking the case to court.

"It turns out that both the Appeal Court and the Court of Cassation  are not able to apply amnesty and release a person from punishment.  Therefore, it turns out that in the absence of a final judicial act,  a person accused of committing the same crime in one of the cases can  be completely exempted from punishment and in another case, as a  result of the amnesty, the term of punishment may be reduced, "the  statement stresses.

In connection with these facts, Tatoyan appealed to the  Constitutional Court of Armenia, noting that the problems mentioned  are a violation of general equality and violate the prohibition on  discrimination before the law. "The findings mentioned in the  statement are reinforced by an analysis of international standards,"  the statement reads.