Armenian News - Tert.am
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10:18 Jan 10, 2024
The court session on 08.01.2024 regarding the extension of the detention of the RPA vice-chairman Armen Ashotyan once again turned into a judicial farce and clearly showed that Armen Ashotyan is being subjected to political persecution. "Despite the fact that it was confirmed by the court act entered into legal force that there is no reasonable suspicion regarding the most serious act attributed to Armen Ashotyan - money laundering, and the legal entity recognized as the victim was dissolved before the alleged act attributed to Armen Ashotyan, the Anti-Corruption Court extended for another three months A. Ashotyan's term of detention. The decision to detain Ashotyan lacks any legal basis, as there is no evidence of influence on the involved parties in the fabricated criminal case. The court unreasonably rejected the motion to release Armen Ashotyan and rejected to apply alternative means of detention, in the presence of the guarantee of about a dozen reputational figures. With its decision, the court once aga...