"Now it is already a fact that "telephone justice" is implemented in Armenia.
Yesterday, when the court hearing on the extension of the detention of my client Samvel Karapetyan was still going on, the media owned by the Prime Minister's family already published the "verdict" on the extension of the detention," Samvel Karapetyan's lawyer Robert Amsterdam wrote on his social network pages. He reminds that the court officially approved the predetermined sentence, extending the detention for another two months. "This is undoubtedly proof that the judicial system of Armenia is completely deprived of its independence.
It has turned into a tool for the implementation of political instructions. A man who arrived at his father's forty-hundredth and has been in prison for five months without any valid evidence, should be deprived of his freedom for another two months. This cruelty is beyond all legal, moral and humanitarian rules.
Deprivation of personal freedom is used as an unacceptable lever of political pressure. This kind of personal terrorism was combined with an economic attack on the same days. The decision to terminate the license of "Electrical Networks of Armenia" by PSC is ECONOMIC VIOLENCE. This raid is being carried out despite an interim decision by the Stockholm Arbitration Institute, which expressly prohibited license revocation.
Ignoring the arbitration decision shows the complete disrespect of the RA authorities towards international law. Such parallel and coordinated actions have absolutely nothing to do with legal processes. They are terrorism and are carried out to serve petty political and personal interests. We will use all possible instruments of international law to protect Samvel Karapetyan's investment and personal rights.
Our team is determined to stand against the illegalities of the RA authorities," the lawyer writes.
