Armenia Supreme Judicial Council holding urgent session, judge says his life is being threatened

News.am, Armenia

Judge Mher Petrosyan of the Administrative Court, who rendered an interim decision with regard to Onik Gasparyan [ex-chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces], has addressed the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC and informed that his life is being threatened, ArmLur.am reports.

According to ArmLur.am’s sources, the SJC has convened an urgent session and is examining the threats addressed to the judge.

On March 10, 2021, Onik Gasparyan submitted a statement of claim to the Administrative Court of Armenia against President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan with the demand to declare the decree on his dismissal from the position of Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (approved with the statement by the Prime Minister of 10 March 2021 on considering Onik Gasparyan dismissed from the position of Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces by virtue of law) null and void.

On March 17, the Administrative Court of Armenia, under the chairmanship of Judge Mher Petrosyan, granted the motion of the attorney to apply a measure for securing the claim of Onik Gasparyan by which the demand was to acknowledge the absence of legal relations for dismissing Onik Gasparyan from the position.