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“NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFAME ARZUMANYAN IN THAT WAY”

Politics

One of the leaders of the “Civil Disobedience” movement, the RA former Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Arzumanyan will not be released. The RA Criminal Court and the Appeal Court on Military Affairs left unchanged the decision of the First Instance Court to keep him under arrest denying the appeal of the lawyer Hovik Arsenyan.

“I feel pain that they did not follow the rule of right and fulfilled an assignment. The judicial system is loosing its status”, complained Arzumanyan’s lawyer Hovik Arsenyan. He assured that the denial was not motivated. “It is ridiculous that the investigating body motivated that in freedom, Arzumanyan will hamper the investigation and will hide. I explained to him that Arzumanyan is one of them who participated in the formation of the third republic and no one has the right to defame him that way”.

Hovik Arsenyan finds that before search Alexander Arzumanyan must have been inquired where the money was from and then only, in case of necessity, search his apartment and the office. The defender repeated that this was a political order: “I think that Arzumanyan’s release depended on the social movement. If no movement occurs he will be released”. The RA former vice Defense Minister Vahan Shirkhanyan was waiting with the relatives of the accused and is considered to be one of the witnesses.

“Alik and Vahan Shirkhanyan are isolated from the processes in the country and the opposition or the businessmen were frightened, so that they will be afraid to show financial contribution to the opposition. They are alarmed of anything that may activate the opposition”, he said.

Melisa Brown, Arzumanay’s wife, said that she would like to meet Robert Kocharyan and Serge Sargsyan and ask them why Alik was arrested. She noted that she had applied to the OSCE Office in Yerevan and to the US Embassy.

It is worth reminding that Alexander Arzumanyan is charged for legitimating income got through criminal way and was in a criminal agreement with the citizen of Russian Federation Levon Marcos. Alexander Arzumanyan was arrested on 7 May 2007.