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ARMENIA DOES NOT LACK FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS

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“The authorities of no country would endorse the existence of political prisoners in their country. So did the countries of the Soviet Union and Middle East. The same is true about Armenia,” Avetik Ishkhanyan, the Chairperson of the Armenian Helsinki Committee told A1+.

Let us remind you that on September 25 ARF Dashnaktsutyun member Vahan Hovhannisyan stated that there are no political prisoners in Armenia. There have been no detainees in the country since April 12, 2004, thanks to the ARF Dashnaktsutyun.

Hundreds of people taken into administrative custody that night were political prisoners. Suren Surenyants, Aramazd Zakaryan and Edgar Arakelyan were sued. They were political prisoners.

RA former Defense Minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan was also a political prisoner.

Today Jirayr Sefilyan, Vardan Malkhasyan, Vahan Aroyan and Arman Babajanyan are political prisoners.

Alexander Arzumanyan is also persecuted, Avetik Ishkhanyan says.

According to Ishkhanyan Hovhannisyan supports the authorities’ stance in this context and refutes the existence of political prisoners.