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    Emil Lazarian
  • 4 years ago
    • Categories: 2022

Arrested opposition activist Narek Mantashyan hospitalized

Panorama
Armenia –

Opposition Hayastan alliance member Narek Mantashyan has been taken to hospital from prison, his lawyer Alexander Kochubaev said on social media.

He was hospitalized late on Friday due to heart issues caused by elevated blood glucose levels, the lawyer said.

“The current authorities have come to realize that they can no longer keep people in prison on trumped-up charges and are making every effort to cause their death,” Kochubaev wrote.

“Judge Karen Farkhoyan never bothered to hold an emergency hearing in a month to consider the motion over the incompatibility of Mantashyan’s health condition with arrest, while the state has clearly failed in its function of ensuring his health,” the lawyer said.

Narek Mantashyan is accused of involvement in mass riots in Yerevan on 10 November 2020.

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