Question to the Penitentiary Department Head
On what legal grounds is Nikol Pashinyan in a punishment cell? This is the question that RA Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan addressed Head of the Penitentiary Department Hayk Harutyunyan.
In the letter it is also stated that "in a telephone conversation with an employee of the RA Ombudsman's Staff, Head of the "Kosh" Penitentiary of the RA Ministry of Justice L. Baghdasaryan informed that the penitentiary received information that N. Pashinyan is in danger, informed Pashinyan and the latter asked to be transferred to a punishment cell in oral form."
In the meantime, Nikol Pashinyan and his attorney Vahe Grigoryan have disseminated an announcement according to which Pashinyan was transferred without his consent and the latter had not addressed the penitentiary administration in written or oral form.
Nikol Pashinyan has been in the punishment cell since November 14.
