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.