21/01/2011 18:20
Hammarberg called on to release persons imprisoned after March 1
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg told a news conference in Yerevan that during his visit to Armenia he called on Armenia’s authorities to release persons who were imprisoned after the events of March 1, 2008 in Yerevan adding that people are kept in the prisons even after the amnesty was granted.
Hammarberg expressed concern that the circumstances of the ten deaths in the March 1 events have not been disclosed so far. In his words, the Police and Prosecutor’s Office are to blame for delay of the disclosure of the death circumstances.