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    ANC activist sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment demands justice

    arminfo
    Tuesday, August 14, 17:10


    Tigran Arakelyan, an activist of the oppositional Armenian National
    Congress, who was sentenced to 6 years in prison and has been in
    custody for already a year, has disseminated an open letter. The
    letter contains facts proving that the criminal case against ANC
    activists was fully fabricated.

    He says that the testimonies of police officers and other witnesses
    were fabricated. Arakelyan tells that activists were treated violently
    on the way to the police office.

    In his letter, Arakelyan says that such incidents in Armenia will
    continue unless those guilty in the incidents of March 1 2008 and in
    the murder of military doctor Vahe Avetyan are punished.

    To recall, the first instance court of the administrative communities
    of Yerevan, Center-Nork-Marashmade a verdict regarding the activists
    of Armenian National Congress, Tigran Arakelyan, Artak Karapetyan,
    David Kiramijan and Sarkis Gevorkyan. Tigran Arakelyan was sentenced
    to six years, Artak Karapetyan to three, Sargis Gevorgyan and Davit
    Kiramijyan to two years in jail. Tigran Arakelyan was arrested with 6
    other ANC activists for a fight with police officers on August 9 2011
    in Yerevan. Later 6 activists were dismissed provided they do not
    leave the country. Tigran Arakelyan was charged with hooliganism and
    violence to power representative. ANC considers the verdict as a
    political order.

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