“The prevention of Liska’s famous case speaks of a far more disgraceful handwriting” Artur Sakunts
06:14, November 8, 2013 | News
“The immediate dismissal of so many prosecutors based on their applications right after the appointment of the General Prosecutor to me raises grounded concerns that demands were posed before them and people were forced to write their applications”, thinks human rights activist Artur Sakunts, despite the fact that several days ago the RA Prosecutor’s office disseminated a statement, according to which, there were no staff massacres in the Prosecutor’s office.
The human rights activist pointed out that such a torrent of resignation applications had not been recorded until the last office day of former Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan. He recalls that back then there were also changes but not in such a short timeline. Sakunts is convinced that people, as a general rule, are told to resign and knowing it the latter writes his own application and therefore the resignation is termed as dismissal according to his own application.
“Once I told everything was going to be even more cruel, and now we are coming to it”, the human rights activist repeated himself and by addressing Kostanyan’s statement that he did not resolve the issue of Aghvan Hovsepyan’s dismissal and that the newly appointed prosecutors were the staff of the same system, he stated it was natural that they would not bring in outside staff.
“Naturally, he would recruit from among the same staff, merely, some of them were of primary while, the others of secondary positions and now a shift is taking place”, explains Sakunts. He considers that the major problem now is the lack of predictability over the prosecutor general’s office staff recruitment policy.
“I qualify it as subjective staff appointments. When various people simultaneously have the same desire to resign and they display similar conduct, therefore, their order was also the same”, reassures the human rights activist.
Although Kostanyan-Hovsepyan tense rations seem to determine Kostanyan to disclose the cases unrevealed during Hovsepyan’s office years, Sakunts does not either expect objective investigations over those cases in the field of justice by Kostanyan.
“Because of selective justice in Armenia, Kostanyan may resume certain cases based on his subjective goals. But there will be no change in terms of legal predictability and definiteness and I am more than convinced that the selective justice will even intensify. The prevention of Liska’s famous case speaks of a far more disgraceful handwriting”, assures Artur Sakunts.