ARMENIAN MINISTER’S SON COULD’VE BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN IRAN: NEWSPAPER
10.24.2013 14:16 epress.am
Iranian border guards arrested RA Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs
Yuri Vardanyan’s son at the Armenia-Iran border on suspicion of drug
trafficking, according to local daily Zhoghovurd’s sources. Seeing that
he is a citizen of Armenia and the son of a high-ranking official,
Iranian law enforcement officials, in order to avoid an unnecessary
row, immediately sent him back to Armenia, informing Armenian border
guards of the incident and calling for David Vardanyan’s arrest.
The Armenian newspaper reports that the Iranians “behaved this way”
because in their country those charged with drug possession get
the death sentence, and so that they don’t sentence a citizen of
Armenia to death, they prefered to hand over the minister’s son to
the Armenian authorities.
From: A. Papazian
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