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    Emil Lazarian
  • 4 years ago
    • Categories: 2020

Vesti.ru: ECHR opinion favors ex-Armenian President Robert Kocharyan

Panorama, Armenia
June 9 2020

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has responded to the complaints filed by former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan’s lawyers. The court found that the legislation has undergone changes, while the authorities seek to try Kocharyan under a stricter article, which has been introduced much later, deeming the process as “unacceptable”, Russian media outlet Vesti.ru reported.

The media outlet reminds that Kocharyan was initially arrested in July 2018 on charges of “overthrowing the constitutional order” while dispersing the 2008 post-election protests.

The ex-president was freed in May 2019 to be arrested again in June as the Court of Appeals overturned the lower court ruling.

Kocharyan dismisses the charges as “fabricated and politically motivated”.

Currently the former Armenian president is recovering from a surgery at a Yerevan hospital.

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