Chief Prosecutor vows to protest if Pashinyan is not pardoned
RA Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan announced today that an amnesty for Haykakan Zhamanak daily Editor Nikol Pashinyan would be granted only after the case had gone through the upper instances and a final verdict had been reached.
"An amnesty is a statutory requirement but not at this stage. Only when we have a final verdict and sentence of the Appellate Court or the Cassation Court, shall an amnesty be granted. If it isn't granted, the Prosecutor's Office will dispute the matter," announced Mr. Hovsepyan.
Remind that a Yerevan court had sentenced Nikol Pashinyan to seven years' imprisonment. On February 19 Pashinyan's advocates took the case to the Court of Appeals.
In reply to A1+ whether the Prosecutor's Office had taken any measures to disclose the events of March 1-2, Mr. Hovsepyan said they had done everything possible to disclose the criminals. "If you take and study the pretrial cases you will see that large-scale work has been done in this direction," said the chief prosecutor.
"We seek public support for the full disclose of the events but so far we have found no response," he added.
