Congress to find the way
Support A1+!The office of the Armenian National Congress issued a statement:
"Nikol Pashinyan's verdict that was announced on January 19 was the climax of the manifestation of the regime's felonious policy, as well as the scornfulness and cynicism toward the law, justice and its own people since the murders of March 1, 2008. During the enduring trial, the court was not able to find any piece of evidence that would corroborate any of the charges brought up against the political prisoner. On the contrary, the court presented numerous materials, facts and evidence that fully denied the charges. The period of sentencing demanded by the state prosecutor and the verdict reached by the court had nothing to do with each other. Both were the conclusion of a previously planned scenario that fell on the shoulders of the prosecutor and the judge in the form of an order. The latter apparently presented themselves as simple executors who fulfill the order like trained animals, and not as independent officials carrying out justice and limited to commitments envisaged by law and granted with necessary powers. Under the instruction of the regime and Serzh Sargsyan personally, the court ignored the demand stated in the PACE resolution according to which people who have not committed violence or made calls for violence can't be sentenced.
Indeed, this malicious self-confidence of the regime was based on the fact that until then, it had violated another proposition of the PACE resolutions which demanded that people who are under persecution, underground or have voluntarily presented themselves to the law-enforcement bodies should not be arrested.
The unlawful verdict is the regime's desperate attempt to free themselves from the responsibility for the massacres of March 1, the thousands of political persecutions and contraband electoral falsifications. It showed that not only is the regime not planning to step back from its course of deepening dictatorship, illegality and terrorist acts, but is leading the country toward inevitable destruction. That destruction is inevitable in any country where constitutional order is replaced by the power of hooligans, where laws and justice are violated and where the real culprits judge innocent people.
The Armenian National Congress views the regime's verdict against Nikol Pashinyan as an expression of fear and panic which the regime is trying to conceal with false self-confidence and steps that are illogical and unreasonable. These are convulsions of agony for the regime led by Serzh that has failed in foreign policy, labeled a traitor and turncoat and earned the hatred of the entire nation. The pan-Armenian movement will find a way to liberate Armenia from this regime, restore constitutional order and bring everyone, including the real culprits of this case, their supporters and stooges to justice," as stated in the statement.
