Friday protests continue outside General Prosecutor's Office
Armenian opposition figure Aram Bareghamyian, who was granted parole by the Parole Board of the Sevan Penitentiary Institution earlier this month, is still in jail.
"They are simply playing for time," Bareghamyan's wife Garunik Soghomonyan told A1+.
The relatives of former and present political prisoners, who continue to hold protests outside the Prosecutor General's Office on Fridays, welcomed the authorities' decision to free political prisoner Samson Khachatryan, a former Soviet Union and European boxing champion accused of "exerting violence against a government representative" during the March 1, 2011, rally of the Armenian National Congress.
"The decision to release Samson Khachatryan was enforced by the international community and the authorities could not simply disobey foreign forces," said Mrs. Soghomonyan.
Melissa Brown, the wife of Armenia's ex-Foreign Minister Alik Arzumanyan, says that the trials of political prisoners are fabricated and verdicts are returned on perjured evidence.
"It is disgusting that litigations are full of dirt and humiliation," said Melissa Brown.
Today the protesters handed the 148th letter to the Prosecutor General demanding to free the political prisoners.
