ECtHR disappointed Bojolyans
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rejected the action of orientalist and journalist Mourad Bojolyan on November 3. Bojolyan's representative Ara Ghazaryan received the rejection today.
Murad Bojolyan was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment in 2002 after being charged with high treason -spying for Turkey. He has served eight years in prison. The claim was submitted with the ECtHR 6,5 years ago. Bojolyan reversed the accusations and announced that he had simply worked with Turkish journalists, and collected information from available sources.
The ECtHR decision caught the Bojolyans unawares.
"We hoped that the European Court wouldn't rely on unfair verdicts of Armenian courts otherwise we wouldn't have appealed to the ECtHR. On the other hand, how could international structures including the European Court that turn a blind eye to the Karabakh conflict and Armenian Genocide pay attention to an ordinary man - Bojolyan? I think that Robert Kocharian and his stooges have perfectly served the ECtHR," Bojolyan's spouse Lyudmila Bojolyan told A1+.
