Yerevan court allows opposition MP to leave for PACE spring session

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Armenia,

The Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction has allowed opposition Hayastan faction MP Armen Gevorgyan to travel to Strasbourg to attend the spring plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

Presiding judge Anna Danibekyan on Tuesday granted a motion filed by Gevorgyan’s lawyer Lusine Sahakyan to allow her client to leave for the session planned for 25-28 April after rejecting similar requests previously.

Given that the lawmaker is going to raise issues related to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in Strasbourg, the court allowed him to travel abroad.

Gevorgyan has been charged with corruption and money laundering as part of a criminal case also involving Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan.

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