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‘ONLY TWO ARE POLITICAL PRISONERS”

Politics


The Armenian National Congress has released a statement which holds: “The regime uses its entire arsenal of tricks ranging from preposterous letters to shameless fraud to avoid the demand to immediately release the political prisoners and not to lose the voting right at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.


For this purpose, over the past month the regime has been trying its utmost to extort letters of pardon from the political prisoners in order to imitate “progress” in the eyes of the PACE. After the failure of this immoral and abject plan, usurper Serzh Sargsyan again resorted to fraud. On January 23 he signed a decree on granting pardon to sixteen detainees. The decree is but a collection of fraud:


The charges of these 16 people have nothing to do with the “weapon and ammunition” mentioned in the decree of Mr. Sargsyan;


Only two out of the 16 are included in the list of the existing 60 political prisoners;


Of the other “pardoned” 14 people at least six had been put on a conditional sentence; 13 had been charged with theft;


Two of the 14 had confessed at court that they were Serzh Sargsyan’s proxies. One was a member of the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), and ten, still unknown to us, were members of a gang sent by the regime for looting and provocation, and had nothing to do with the demonstrators.


We have learned that another group of people will be granted “pardon” before the PACE suspends Armenia’s voting right. The number of the so-called “pardoned” will be publicized during the PACE session at the last moment to influence over the parliamentarians. Serzh Sargsyan has invented and played the trick in such a short period of time only for one purpose – for the PACE delegates and officials to have no time and possibility to check the reality about the numbers tossed to them.”