SARGIS HATSPANIAN IS GOING TO APPLY TO COURT: NOW HE HAS ASKED ARTSAKH
AUTHORITIES FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 15, NOYAN TAPAN. The other day French Armenian
freedom-fighter Sargis Hatspanian applied to NKR President Bako
Sahakian in a written form asking him for a political asylum in
Artsakh. S. Hatspanian said this in his interview to Noyan Tapan
correspondent. According to him, on October 9, when his apartment "for
already three days had been surrounded by unshaved people in civil
clothes" he rang up NKR Foreign Minister Georgy Petrosian, National
Assembly Speaker Rudik Hyusnunts and asked for a political asylum, in
response to which the latters promised to attend to that issue.
However, according to S. Hatspanian, he has received no response from
NKR power representatives and President so far.
S. Hatspanian said that as early as on October 6 a group of people
tried to enter his apartment, without introducing any document they
stated that they are representatives of law enforcement bodies and have
an instruction to expatriate S. Hatspanian from Armenia. S. Hatspanian
refused to open his door before them. And only on October 9 he was
handed a notice on that, and the order to expatriate the former
freedom-fighter from Armenia was proved to have been signed by former
President Robert Kocharian as far back as on March 10.
According to S. Hatspanian, that order of R. Kocharian was not valid on
October 6 as no notice was introduced to him. Besides, keeping his
apartment under control for 24 hours without introducing the respective
documents to him, as he evaluated it, reminded of a house arrest. S.
Hatspanian said that he is going to apply to the Administrative Court
on October 16 to challenge R. Kocharian’s above mentioned order, as
well as the actions of the Police, which are illegal in his opinion.
The former freedom-fighter stated that all those guilty of terrifying
his family lately will be called for liability. He added that though he
does not trust the justice system in Armenia, nevertheless he is not
going to sit idle and will go as far as the European Court.