Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Key Parliament Committee Gives Positive Conclusion On General Amnest

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Key Parliament Committee Gives Positive Conclusion On General Amnest

    KEY PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE GIVES POSITIVE CONCLUSION ON GENERAL AMNESTY PROPOSAL

    Human rights | 01.10.13 | 13:44

    Photolure

    The parliament committee on state and legal issues has given a positive
    conclusion to the bill on general amnesty proposed by President Serzh
    Sargsyan after holding a closed-door meeting on Tuesday.

    Justice Minister Hrair Tovmasyan told media after the meeting that
    this year's general amnesty may extend to even more people than the
    one declared in 2011.

    The minister stopped short of naming names, saying that the essence
    of the general amnesty is that it involves criminal code articles,
    deeds, other related circumstances, but did not rule out that the
    bill may also extend to opposition youth Tigran Arakelyan, who was
    convicted of assaulting a police officer and has served more than
    two years of his six-year prison term.

    The Armenian opposition considers Arakelyan and three other activists
    convicted in a related case to be political prisoners, while the
    government has denied any presence of people imprisoned for their
    political views in Armenia either today or in the past.

    In any case, the opposition Armenian National Congress has hailed
    the possible release of Arakelyan under the amnesty bill, which is
    expected to win approval from the full parliament as well.

    Justice Minister Tovmasyan explained: "A general amnesty implies that
    part of convicts will be released immediately, the sentences of others
    will be reduced; there are also articles to which this amnesty will
    not apply at all. The 2011 amnesty applied to more than 1,200 prison
    inmates, this year it will be a little more, as the number of articles
    that are not under restriction has been increased."

    http://armenianow.com/society/human_rights/48851/armenia_general_amnesty_hrair_tovmasyan

Working...
X