Hatspanyan wants to live in Armenia
After having spent his time in prison since November 2008, citizen of France, former political prisoner Sargis Hatspanyan was released today and spent the day with his family.
"The authorities haven't done anything good for the people in this period," Hatspanyan told "A1+".
Sargis Hatspanyan mentioned that there had not been such discrimination against any other political prisoner besides him.
"I saw vengeance and a very bad attitude toward me. It was as if I was a stranger."
Now that he is in liberty, Hatspanyan says the only thing he wants to do is to live in Armenia and acquire RA citizenship. According to Hatspanyan, on 10 March 2008, Robert Kocharyan issued a decree on exiling him from the country for one reason.
"Robert Kocharyan deprived me of the right to live in Armenia because I was against the 2008 falsified presidential elections and he announced that I was subject to exile. That decree is in effect now that I am in liberty and I have to leave the territory of Armenia within 5 days."
Hatspanyan expects Serzh Sargsyan to recognize that exile decree as invalid. "I am the only political prisoner who isn't able to go home after his release. I am hanging from thin air."
As far as the charge brought up against him is concerned, the former political prisoner says that was Robert Kocharyan's personal order.
"I was standing in their way of seizing power. The authorities said I had to be sentenced and they confessed that. They sentenced all of us like those who were sentenced in 1937."
Hatspanyan assured that the preliminary investigative body was even ready to reveal the source that had served as grounds for his statement, but that body was prohibited from doing so. Hatspanyan says this showed once again that it was a disgraceful act against him and announced that he would make his statement public if he had such information.
Touching upon the HAK-authorities dialogue, Sargis Hatspanyan mentioned that he got the impression that it was a monologue, hinting the authorities' behavior.
"I don't see any logic for a real dialogue, though I positively assess the HAK's proposal for dialogue."
