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CLEMENCY MUST BE SHOWN TOWARD EDGAR

Politics

On Tuesday, MP Grigor Harutyunyan, a member of Artarutyun opposition bloc, commenting on court decision to extend the term of General-Lieutenant Vagharshak Harutyunyan’s pretrial detention for another two months, said, according to information obtained from reliable sources, the political prisoner had been offered freedom for dissuading the opposition from holding rallies. He rebuffed the offer, said Grigor Harutyunyan.

It should be reminded that Vagharshak Harutyunyan is charged with attempting a coup, making seditious calls and insulting the authorities.

MP Emma Khudabashyan spoke on another political prisoner Edgar Arakelyan, 24, who had been convicted of hitting a policeman with empty plastic bottle and sentenced to one year and six months in jail. She urged president Kocharyan and the ruling coalition to display clemency toward Edgar and release him from detention.