Ignoring calls by more than 100 politicians and prominent public figures, Armenia’s Court of Appeals refused on Wednesday to release on bail an opposition activist who has been kept in prison on controversial charges for the past two years.
The court ruled that Tigran Arakelian, a leader of the youth wing of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK), will stay behind bars pending its verdict in the high-profile case also involving three other HAK activists.
The four young men were arrested in August 2011 and accused of attacking police officers maintaining public order in Yerevan. They strongly denied the police claims, saying that they were beaten up and detained after the policemen tried to arbitrarily search another man. All of the activists except Arakelian were set free shortly afterwards.
Armenian News
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