Pashinyan: Shant Harutyunyan will be released on parole as soon as he signs the necessary documents

ArmInfo. Shant Harutyunyan will be released on parole as soon as he signs the documents necessary to change the regime of detention. This was stated by the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan on September 2 live.

Yerevan, September 03. ArmInfo, Satenik Sargsyan. Shant Harutyunyan will be released on parole as soon as he signs the documents necessary to change the regime of detention. This was stated by the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan on September 2 live.

"De jure, the regime of the convict's detention is changing, the convicted person is free for 24 hours, but from time to time he should be seen in the police station." This way the convicts in the same case Liparit Petrosyan and Vardan Vardanyan are at liberty, but Shant Harutyunyan refuses this ", said Nikol Pashinyan. "I spoke with Harutyunyan and he demanded that he be acquitted, I said that I do not interfere in court cases and can not influence the court's decision, since this will be a repetition of the practice of the previous authorities, we must have an independent judicial system. he was released on parole and would be unacceptable if I sit in the Prime Minister's chair, and he is in prison and asked Harutyunyan to sign documents, get out of prison and fight for his justification at liberty. Shant Harutyunyan will be free as soon as he wish ", - added Pashinyan noting that he asked his son Shahen Harutyunyan persuade his father to be free on parole.

Note that in response to this statement Pashinyan Harutyunyan made a proposal to give him the opportunity to hold a press conference at the penitentiary. "If I do not get this opportunity, then the current authorities act like the previous regime, which they themselves criticized." In 2015, I was refused to communicate with the press while in prison, "said Harutyunyan.

Today, the group "Sasna Tsrer" addressed the demand for the release and justification of the political prisoner Harutyunyan, who believes that for this there are all legal grounds. "Everything else is an attempt to throw dust in the public eye," the statement said.

To note, on November 5, 2013, Shant Harutyunyan and several of his like-minded people initiated a procession with the slogan "I'm starting a values revolution", which, however, was interrupted in Mashtots Square, where clashes took place between policemen and demonstrators. In this case, 14 people were convicted, including Shant Harutyunyan's minor son Shahen Harutyunyan, who was later released. The other day, Shagen, for the release of his father, gave the new Armenian authorities time until October 7.  Otherwise, he said, the consequences for the authorities will be unpredictable.