As estimated by human right activist Artur Sakunts, with the help of obviously illegal criminal case, the authorities are pressurizing the members of the “Founding Parliament”. “Charges are brought against the members of the Founding Parliament before April 24, allegedly they intended to disrupt the public order and inciting mass disorders. In the event, when the “Founding Parliament”, in response to the application for massive event on April 24, agreed to the offer of the municipality to hold the event in a different location. The ground of this criminal case as an objective substantiation have been eliminated but the criminal case is still on,” assures the human rights activist.
Inviting Zhirayr Sefilyan to interrogation, as described by the human rights activist, is an unprecedented phenomenon. “This is the first time when the criminal case was not dropped in the event of changing the objective grounds. This obvious political prosecution follows one objective: to suppress, intimidate and suspend the people’s activeness during the campaign for passing the Constitution in Armenia. Serzh Sargsyan’s administration has targeted the members of the “Founding Parliament” as representatives of active mass, because they have a clear task, against which the authorities do not have a counterargument and it remains only to pressurize with criminally illegal and long-term prosecution.
Arpine SIMONYAN
