ArmInfo.The Court of General Jurisdiction of the city of Yerevan partially satisfied the claim of former Chairman of the Constitutional Court Hrayr Tovmasyan against RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Thus, the capital court ordered Nikol Pashinyan to refute statements containing slander against Judge Hrayr Tovmasyan. “The court ordered Pashinyan, within five working days after the entry into force of the court decision, to publish a publication on the Facebook page entitled “Refutation of slanderous information regarding Hrayr Tovmasyan” with the following content: “I, Nikol Pashinyan, refute my statement that
Hrayr Tovmasyan has been offering me his services since May 2018.” By court decision, if it is impossible to post the text of the refutation on Facebook, to oblige Nikol Pashinyan to issue a refutation with at least 5,000 (five thousand) copies through any print newspaper published in the Republic within five working days after the entry into force of the decision. At the same time, by another decision, the court rejected Tovmasyan’s claim that Pashinyan should ask for forgiveness.
The decision was made on February 17 of this year. It will enter into force one month after its publication if it has not been appealed. An appeal against the decision may be filed within one month from the date of its publication.
It should be noted that on February 25, at a press conference, Nikol Pashinyan stated that Hrayr Tovmasyan offered him his services, which he rejected. Tovmasyan, in turn, called this statement a fabrication, threatening to sue Pashinyan for libel if he does not provide “at least one reliable fact.” After this demand, the Prime Minister of Armenia posted on his Facebook page a photo of a pen, which, as he wrote, was presented to him by the chairman of the Constitutional Court Hrayr Tovmasyan. “I thought for a long time whether to throw it away or not. In the end, I decided to leave it as evidence of the strangest servility,” the prime minister wrote at the beginning of his post. This post caused a resonance in the Armenian society and became the subject of wide discussions and jokes.
On February 21, 2020, Hrayr Tovmasyan’s representative Artur Hovhannisyan sued Nikol Pashinyan, demanding an apology for the offensive language and publishing a refutation of the slanderous information.
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