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  • GEORGIA: Court Hearing on Refusal to Register Lawyer of V Chakhalyan

    GEORGIA-ARMENIA: Contact, Robert Tatoyan / Mobile: +374 94 36 17 93 /
    <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] / <http://www.yerkir.org/>
    www.yerkir.org EURope-FRANCE:
    <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] / <http://www.yerkir.eu/>
    www.yerkir.eu







    PRESS-RELEASE

    Procès contre le ministère de la justice de Géorgie pour refus
    d'homologation d'un avocat français

    Version française ci-joint à ce mail

    ARMENIAN AND Russian version attached

    May 2, 2009


    The First Court Hearing in the Case of Refusal to Register the French
    Lawyer Patrick ArapIan will be held in Tbilisi on May 7, 2009

    On May 7, 2009 the first hearing in the case of refusal by the
    Ministry of Justice to register Patrick Arapian, a French lawyer and a
    member of the Paris Bar, as a court defender of Javakheti political
    activist Vahagn Chakhalyan will be held at Tbilisi City Court for
    Administrative Cases.

    The Chakhalyans' interest in this case will be represented by Nino
    Andriashvili, a lawyer of the Georgian non-governmental organization
    `The Human Rights Centre (HRIDC)' seeking to protect and promote human
    rights and basic freedoms in Georgia.

    On February 16, 2009, the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, without
    providing any explanation refused to register Mr. Arapian as defender
    of Vahagn Chahalyan in the ongoing trial. The Ombudsman of Georgia
    Sozar Subari, in his letter addressed to the Minister of Justice
    Z. Adeishvili recommended that the latter should restore the violated
    rights of the Chahalyans family and allow the participation of the
    French lawyer, but the Georgian authorities ignored this
    recommendation.

    At the demonstrations in defense of Vahagn Chakhalyan that took place
    in Paris on April 14 and 28, the Ambassador of Georgia to France
    Mamuka Kudava received the organizers of the protest action and
    promised that the Georgian authorities would give a positive solution
    to the question of registration of Patrick Arapian.

    YERKIR Union
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