Committee on State and Legal Affairs and Human Rights Protection of the National Assembly was discussing the draft on making changes and amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia. By these amendments and changes the opportunities of the person’s imprisonment appellation deadlines are defined. The MPs suggest defining short-term deadlines for prisoners’ appellation: for example, not later than 48 hours and to discuss it within 12 hours. And if the appellation was submitted during 60 hours after the imprisonment then it is examined in reasonable time frame.
The provision on appealing against relative was also discussed actively. The government proposes an amendment whereby people should refuse lodging an appeal against their relative, if they find it can be used against them reasonably.
“We will have a problem in application of the law, they will say – lodge the appeal, then we will decide whether it is reasonable or not”, explained “Yelq” bloc MP, Artak Zeynalyan.
And Edmon Marukyan noticed, they have told still during the constitutional changes, that the proposed package is a regress from human rights.
