Are Soviet Union Court’s rulings still in force in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic?
12:10, September 5, 2017 | News, Own news
In April 2017, 2 officers of Vanadzor town Bazum Division of the RA Police, visited M. S.’s apartment and said that they “were sent by Jalavyan, Head of Stepanakert Criminal Investigation Department”. The police officers arranged a phone talk between M. S. and Jalavyan who told him to visit the NKR Police or send the judgment made against him back on June 29, 1989.
According to M. S., in 1989 as there were still Soviet rules in Nagorno-Karabakh, he was sentenced to imprisonment for illegal acquisition of weapons and first served his sentence in Shushi. Then he was taken to the penitentiary facilities in Astrakhan from where he fled and returned to Nagorno-Karabakh to take part in defensive battles.
M. S. provided all this information in May 2017 when he sought protection of his rights with HCA Vanadzor.
On May 5, 2017 the Organization filed an inquiry with the Stepanakert Police Department to get information on the reasons for inviting M. S. to the NKR police and his procedural status.
By his response letter of May 20, 2017, A. Hakobjanyan, Chief of the NKR Police, commented on the incident by the letter from the First Instance Court of Stepanakert city, NKR. According to the Chief of the NKR Police, judge at Stepanakert Court M. Avanesyan informed by that letter that by the Stepanakert city court ruling of April 10, 1990 “the criminal case against” M. S. “was suspended till his detection and he must be put on wanted list.”
Note that during his phone talk with the Chief of Stepanakert Police, M. S. said that he had already faced responsibility for that action. Despite this, the Chief of Police insisted that he should appear before the police in person or submit the court judgment; otherwise, they would put his name on wanted list.
According to the Chief of NKR Police, they suggested that M. S. “appear before the First Instance Court of Stepanakert city, NKR to clarify the questions related to him.”
Without providing any legal reasons for summoning M. S. to Stepanakert, the Chief of the NKR Police in the end of his letter suggested seeking details from M. Avanesyan, judge at the First Instance Court of Stepanakert city.
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