Hraparak interview with the chairman of the Union of Judges, former Judge Alexander Azaryan
- In recent days, dozens of people are arrested, in which there is no crime in the actions. For example, Samvel Karapetyan has only been arrested for public speech, what impression on these processes do you have?
- I can't say that I am not familiar with the decisions of the detention, but that all this is done in political pursuit is obvious.
- Your colleagues, judges make the decisions of those detention, it turns out that they are making a political order.
- If political persecution, of course, a political order has been reduced. Very similar to political persecution.
- How did the judiciary achieve that level that dozens of people are pursued politically, and the courts are doing the will of the government? "Who are dozens of people?"
"Well, only Bagrat's Bishop supporters are 14 people, they are detained, you know the others, Mikael Bishop Samvel Karapetyan.
- I cannot assess the court's decision without getting acquainted with those decisions. Sorry, the reader of "Hraparak" will understand, I am not Gweddon's grandson, without reading the judicial act, I appreciate it. Perhaps the foundations have had the judges, the detainees of your mentioned persons, but that all this is very similar to political persecution, it is obvious. Maybe I get acquainted with the court decisions, and that "very similar" to me will become 100% political persecution, but I can't say, but it is very similar to political persecution without getting to know.
- There is no need to get acquainted with the decisions, as it is known that Samvel Karapetyan was arrested for one phrase. "I support the Church if that issue is not resolved, we will participate in our way." What can, if not the instruction, force the judge to make those in a single or two words to a person's detainee.
- If Samvel Karapetyan was arrested for the phrase he made, it is a legal absurdity, then it is new law, some new, the situation in Armenia is a new word in international law. I join the words of Samvel Karapetyan, let me arrest me, the incarnation of the absurds. If Samvel Karapetyan was detained for the words he expressed in the statement ... It was not only a call, it was the opinion of a large Armenian, whom I literally I joined.
- What can you do in connection with this condition of the judiciary as the Chairman of the Union of Judges, at least on international platforms? - The functions of the Judges' Union does not include fighting against individual judges, on the contrary, it supports the implementation of justice, strengthening of judges, and so on. I can't call that judge, who, is not a member of the union, to make a finger, shame, for example, as a private citizen.
- There has never been this dependent situation, so not free, no independent. Never. I know what to offer to you. I suppose I don't work. You can't perform an "anonymous" question and you will see what the atmosphere is among the existing judges, what is the situation? This opinion is not my opinion or the opinion of almost 90% of judges working in my colleagues, but in the judicial system. We remember that Pashinyan said, That is, it is supposed that any judge can decrease an order and get the desired result.
- So Pashinyan will see the fact that he says. There are, of course, judges, and now there are many judges who can show Pashinyan if they lower such an instruction. Of course, there are judges who will not allow them to try to approach them by such an order. Ձեզ թվում է՝ հիմա ցանկացած դատավորի կարելի է մոտենալ եւ ասել՝ Փաշինյանն այսպես է ուզում կամ այնպես է ուզում, իրենք չգիտե՞ն՝ որ դատավորին կարելի է նման բան ասել, որին` չէ։ It was casual in Yerevan's judges' judges' judges' judges. Meanwhile, his function is to ensure the independence of judges.
What does this speak about the instructions about Atabekyan?
