At 5 pm on Sept. 24, a mock trial, Hranush Kharatyan vs. violation of the rights of ethnic minorities, will take place in Yerevan’s Mkhitar Sebastatsy educational complex with the cooperation of the Caucasus Center for Peace-Making Initiatives NGO and the Mkhitar Sebastatsy school.<\/p>\n
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Participating in this event will be journalists Irakli Chikhladze, Yulia Adelkhanova, and Nana Plieva, who have been invited from Georgia.<\/p>\n
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During this particular mock trial, the plaintiff (or claimant) will be ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan and the defendant will be Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) Youth Branch Director Artak Zargaryan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Note that such mock hearings have been held also in Georgia, on the topic of Chechnya’s self-determination vs. Russia’s territorial integrity, as well as on the right of people’s self-determination vs. territorial integrity using Nagorno-Karabakh as an example.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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In the first case, jury members voted in favor of Chechnya’s right to self-determination, while Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity won the second case.<\/p>\n
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