ERNEST VARDANYAN’S MOTHER SENT LETTER TO G8 LEADERS
Tert.am
18:10 17.05.10
Tamara Shaghoyan, the mother of the Armenian-national journalist Ernest
Vardanyan working in the Moldovan breakaway region of Transnistria,
has sent a letter to the leader of G8 states, asking to take steps
for his release.
"Ernest Vardanyan’s arrest organized by the Transnistrian authorities
was based on trumped-up charges of ‘espionage and high treason’. Being
an independent journalist Ernest Vardanyan could not have known a
military, state or other secrets kept by the law; he did not work
in state bodies," writes she, adding that her son had recently been
involved in the sraff list of the United Nations and waiting for his
appointment at the UN Washington headquarter.
In her letter addressed to the leaders of Russia, US, France, Germany,
Great Britain, Japan, Italy and Canada Shaghoyan says her son is the
hostage of the Transnistrian authorities.
Ernest Vardanyan was arrested near his home in Tiraspol on April 7
allegedly by the Transnistrian state secrete services. He is accused
of high treason and according to Article 271 of the Transnistrian
Criminal Code he can face 12-20 years in prison if found guilty.