Decision to Grant Amnesty to Tigran Postanjyan to be Protested in Appeals Court: Aravot

Heritage Party MP Zaruhi Postanjyan told local daily Aravot (“Morning”) that the Jun. 3 decision to grant amnesty to her brother, Tigran Postanjyan, “will be protested in appeals court.”

To the newspaper’s observation that Tigran Postanjyan did not object to the decision in court, the MP said:

“This decision was accepted under pressure. And here there is clearly a violation of the law. Especially if there was an opportunity to apply the amnesty, then the trial should’ve continued and he should’ve been immediately released from detention [note, Tigran Postanjyan was kept in detention while the trial was taking place]. Meanwhile the court did not sustain the motion [put forth by Postanjyan’s attorney, to allow his client to continue the trial but not kept in detention], and decided that it’s better to chose this road,” reports Aravot.