YEREVAN. – A protest outside the Court of Cassation of Armenia building, and with a demand for the release of Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) former Defense Minister and Defense Army Commander Samvel Babayan, is in progress on Monday.
A court official had recently received a group of Babayan’s supporters and informed that a decision on his case shall be made within the shortest reasonable timeframe.
An appeal on Babayan’s case had been submitted to this court. The defense and demonstrators demand that the court urgently consider this appeal and, subsequently, acquit Babayan.
A Babayan supporter had stated that the Court of Cassation had made a gross intervention in the judicial process, and that they are not considering the defense’s motion to release him.
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