{"id":46233,"date":"2010-09-25T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/09\/25\/rights-of-ethnic-minorities-defended-in-mock-trial-in-armenia\/"},"modified":"2010-09-25T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T10:31:00","slug":"rights-of-ethnic-minorities-defended-in-mock-trial-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/09\/25\/rights-of-ethnic-minorities-defended-in-mock-trial-in-armenia.html","title":{"rendered":"Rights of Ethnic Minorities Defended in Mock Trial in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\">The mock trial Hranush Kharatyan vs. violation of the rights of ethnic minorities in the South Caucasus (defended by Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun member Artak Zargaryan) took place yesterday at Yerevan&#8217;s Mkhitar Sebastatsy educational complex with the support of the Caucasus Center for Peace-Making Initiatives NGO and the Mkhitar Sebastatsy school.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\">The committee was presided over by Georgy Vanyan; committee members were Irakli Chikhladze (Georgia), Yulia Adelkhanova (Georgia), Nana Plieva (Georgia), Vladimir Unanyants (Georgia), Armine Babayan (Armenia) and Grigor Manasyan (Armenia).<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\">In his opening remarks, Vanyan called this the most just trial because here, unlike in other trials, the audience will administer the verdict.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\">In speaking with Epress.am, Vanyan said that the event would be reported also by Georgian and Azerbaijani media.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\">&#8220;We, all the post-Soviet countries, except the Near Baltics [the Russian term referred to all the lands bordering the Baltic Sea&#8217;s eastern shore], are societies that grumble and complain,&#8221; said the committee president. <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\">According to him, the mock trials pursue the aim of introducing to the public the culture of appealing to and resolving issues in court.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\">&#8220;Nothing will happen right away, but just from the fact that 70\u0420100 people participate in every trial, [and] the media reports [on the trials] through separate articles, our audience grows. Naturally, it&#8217;ll have an effect. Not right away, but I can see the gradual effect,&#8221; said Vanyan. <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\">Note that the South Caucasian Court of Human Rights operates in Yerevan, Tbilisi and Baku, and has two formats: discussion of local issues and discussion of South Caucasian issues. Guests from Georgia and Azerbaijan participate in the South Caucasus discussions in Armenia.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\">&#8220;There are Georgians present today who are mainly representatives of ethnic minorities in Georgia. But also our Azerbaijani colleague-expert will get acquainted with our trial, who will cover this issue in parallel in Azerbaijan,&#8221; he said.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\">Note that the final verdict in this mock trial ruled in favor of the plaintiff, Hranush Kharatyan, who gathered more than 11 votes.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arian AMU\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Caucasian Court of Human Rights operates in Yerevan, Tbilisi and Baku.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[16048,16047,16175,15015,15007,16045],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}