JUSTICE ACCORDING TO AZERBAIJAN – ISSUE 1
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The Armenian news and information agency Pastinfo is launching a series of publications under the title “Justice According to Azerbaijan,” analyzing the indictment and the verdict in the case of Ruben Vardanyan.
At the beginning of September, Siranush Sahakyan, representative of the interests of Armenian prisoners of war at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), announced that English translations of the indictment and verdict in Ruben Vardanyan’s case were published in full for the first time on the Free Armenian Prisoners website.
She also called on the professional legal community and research centers to make the case a subject of academic study and professional discussion, which Pastinfo is now undertaking.
Throughout this series, Pastinfo will present to its readers the quality of the “trials” that took place and the nature of the case concocted by Azerbaijan’s authoritarian regime against our compatriot.
For the professional analysis, Pastinfo has engaged Taron Simonyan, an international law expert and founding partner of the ELL PARTNERSHIP law firm.
Evidence substantiating the alleged act is completely absent. Presented as “evidence” are the search warrant/protocol of Ruben Vardanyan’s office in Stepanakert (03.10.2023) and the documents seized there, official correspondence from the State Security Service Military Counterintelligence, and “operational information.” Their content is not disclosed in any manner within the verdict, nor are any causal links between these documents and the alleged act established.
The conviction is based on assumptions.
Consequently, a private individual who has never held a military or security position is made the subject of a state crime, which constitutes a logical and legal error and violates even Azerbaijan’s own domestic legislation.
Furthermore, none of the “new attacks” attributed to Ruben Vardanyan ever occurred, a fact that the court itself does not dispute.
