SEARCH IN PENITENTIARY
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[04:23 pm] 31 October, 2007
October 29a painstaking search was conducted in the Vardashen
Penitentiary, the committee supporting Zhirair Sefilian and Vardan
Malkhassian reports.
The Security Department of the Justice Ministry at the head of
Lieutenant-Colonel Varuzhan Eghiazarian searched the prison cells
and the colony adjacent to the penitentiary.
Seven officers, three colonels, eight employees of unknown services,
as well as fifteen masked servicemen of special groups participated
in the search.
The penitentiary hasn’t been subjected to such a large-scale search,
the witnesses state.
The ward of Zhirair Sefilian and Vardan Malkhassian was thoroughly
searched but nothing was found there.
We assume that the search was unwarranted and was a well-planned
"masquerade" aimed at imposing a penalty on Zhirair Sefilian and
Vardan Malkhassian. They simply didn’t want the case to be submitted
to the "independent commission" which was to consider the detainees’
conditional release.
It is still unknown whether their plans worked or not.
The initiators also wanted to spoil Sefilian and Malkhassian’s
relations with other detainees.