ARMENIAN JUSTICE MINISTER ATTACHES LITTLE IMPORTANCE TO PACE RESOLUTION
Support A1+!Justice Minister David Harutyunyan, speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, failed to answer journalists’ question whether Armenian authorities are going to comply with PACE-adopted resolution, demanding to refrain from applying administrative detention to rallies’ and demonstrations’ participants, or not.
“There is some misunderstanding between us and the CE”, the answer was.
He pointed out that the facts submitted for the PACE consideration were not accurate, that’s why value of the document based on them is not so great.
He is concerned about the fact of such kind of documents’ existence. It would be better, if Armenia wasn’t be a subject of discussion in PACE sessions, Harutyunyan said.
He is convinced the situation created by some legislative faults. In his opinion, “administrative detention” conception is inherited from soviet-era legislation.
But, at the same time, he said the “administrative detention” term can be replaced by another one. But even so, such a punishment will remain in practice and can be placed in Penal code.
