WILL ARMENIA GET ANOTHER CHANCE?
00:00, June 24, 2008 | News | Right to be free from torture and inhuman or degrading treatment | Police, Political Prisoners, The Resolutions And The Liabilities of Euro Council
“The PACE assessment cannot change much in the present situation in Armenia,” considers Arthur Sakunts, Head of the Vanadzor office of Helsinki Civil Assembly.
Sakunts believes that at the PACE session tomorrow the Armenian authorities will present what they have already done and will ask for more time to be able to complete the remaining tasks.
“The thing is that nothing has been done in conjunction with the political prisoners. Only a few of them have been released. But why are some of them still in prison if others have been set free?” notices Arthur Sakunts.
However, PACE will give another chance to Armenia, Sakunts considers, as it is going to make only a political decision.
“The investigation body continues using force,” the speaker believes. He was unable to mention concrete quantity of violence cases as “it presupposes collection of data, which arouses difficulties in the sense that even those who have suffered violence are reluctant to talk about it for certain reasons. March 1 events can serve as convincing proof of my words,” Sakunts concluded.