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    Emil Lazarian
  • 6 years ago
    • Categories: 2020

Lawyer: Yerevan appellate court denies second motion to arrest Mikayel Minasyan

Panorama, Armenia
Law 16:21 29/07/2020Armenia

The Yerevan Criminal Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied the second motion to arrest Armenia’s former Ambassador to the Vatican Mikayel Minasyan, one of his lawyers, Mihran Poghosyan, said on Facebook.

Prosecutors had appealed the ruling of a lower court rejecting their request for Minasyan’s arrest to the Criminal Court of Appeals.

“We had repeatedly stated that the second motion to arrest Mikayel Minasyan is illegal, which was approved today by the Criminal Court of Appeals,” he wrote.

“Obviously, the political authorities of the country cannot tolerate this situation and in the near future they will file to the court the third motion to arrest Mikayel Minasyan, which will be preceded by a press release on ‘another sensational and scandalous revelation’ and ‘comprehensive and objective’ “reports by the Public TV Company and RFE/RL’s Armenian service,” the lawyer added.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS