Thursday, March 28 2024 21:33

ArmInfo.The European Court of Human Rights has preliminary accepted complaints in the cases of the  deputy chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia Armen Ashotyan and the head of the Adekvad movement Arthur Danielyan. Lawyer Tigran Atanesyan received the corresponding notifications, which he reported  on the social network.

"This in practice means that after some time communication on these  cases - sending questions to the parties, will begin," he wrote.

Atanesyan clarified that these cases are Arthur Danielyan's complaint  about the illegal release of Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen  Simonyan from criminal liability (in the case of a well-known  incident) and Armen Ashotyan's complaint about his arrest by a court  that did not have authority (the Anti- Corruption Court was not  competent to consider pre-trial proceedings, including arrest).

"I hope that one day justice will prevail, and Alen Simonyan, and the  employees of S. Khachatryan (head of the Anti-Corruption Committee -  ed. note), who released him from responsibility, as well as  prosecutors and judges - S. Dadoyan, G. Hovhannisyan, A. Nahapetyan,  will be held accountable," Atanesyan noted.

On November 16, 2022, Armen Ashotyan was charged with abuse of office  and money laundering. A recognizance not to leave was chosen as a  preventive measure. On June 16, 2023, he was arrested for a period of  2 months (since then the preventive measure has been periodically  extended). According to law enforcement officers, the basis for the  arrest was a violation of a preventive measure - a written  undertaking not to leave the place. Ashotyan himself does not admit  guilt, and considers what is happening to be open and cynical  political persecution. In November 2023, lawyer Atanesyan announced  that he had appealed to the ECHR in Ashotyan's case and called on the  court to declare Ashotyan's arrest illegal. At the same time, he  asked the ECHR to apply an interim measure as an exception and oblige  the Armenian authorities to immediately release A. Ashotyan.  Arthur  Danielyan was charged under article "hooliganism" in July 2020 after  an incident with then Deputy Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen  Simonyan. The Special Investigation Service stated that it would not  prosecute Simonyan.