“We have expressed these concerns repeatedly over the last months to the Armenian authorities at the highest levels – and this morning once again in person to the President of the Republic, as we promised to the families of victims and political prisoners with whom we met yesterday”, declared Souhayr Belhassen. “All these issues are of utmost concern to the FIDH Congress, which today launches a solemn appeal to the authorities. We hope that we will receive concrete responses to all of our concerns. We will persist until we obtain them”, she added.
“The release of all political prisoners and holding to account those responsible for the ten deaths of 1 March are two of the essential conditions for the effectiveness of the justice system in Armenia”, concluded Artak Kirakosyan, representative of FIDH’s Armenian member-organisation, Civil Society Institute.