17/01/2019 13:35
“Political prisoner” term has nothing to do with Manvel Grigoryan and Robert Kocharyan: My Step MP
By calling their defendants political prisoners, the attorneys harm them, My Step faction MP Hovhannes Igityan told the reporters today, referring to the statement of Manvel Grigoryan’s attorney that his defendant is a political prisoner.
“Presenting the defendant as a political prisoner and building the defense on it harms the defendant,” the MP said.
Igityan said that if in 2008 there was no clear definition for political prisoners, in 2012 PACE gave it and neither of the points there fits to Manvel Grigoryan’s and second president Robert Kocharyan’s case as the charges against them have nothing to do with “political prisoner” term.
“If the attorneys hope to defend them in the ECHR as political prisoners, they are mistaken,” Igityan said.