ARMENIANS OF FRANCE DEMAND RELEASE OF CHAKHALYAN
On April 14, a hundred Armenians living in Paris gathered in front of Georgia's embassy to require the release of Vahagn Chakhalyan, the leader of the United Javakhk movement, who is being subjected to political persecution by the Georgian authorities.
On April 7, Mr. Chakhalyan was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for "possession of weapons, deterioration of official buildings and participation in a prohibited demonstration."
Representatives of the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations in France (CCAF), Alexis Govciyan and Mourad Papazian of ARF Dashnaksutyun were received by the Ambassador of Georgia, Mr. Mamuka Kudava.
The French Armenian community representatives presented Ambassador Kudava the formal complaints of the French organizations. They have pointed out the fact, according to Union Yerkir, Chakhalyan was not in possession of any weapon in his home. Moreover, the lawsuit had not been justified and the proceedings were not transparent. Therefore, they urged the immediate release of Mr. Chakhalyan.
Ambassador recorded the claims, assuring that they will be transmitted to Tbilisi and underlining that the procedure would follow its course, since Chakhalyan had lodged an appeal.
Alexis Govciyan and Mourad Papazian then asked that French lawyers work for the defense of the leader of United Javakhk.
- By Jean Eckian, Paris
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- 1879 Death in Moscow (Russia) of Stepanos Nazaryan, editor of the "Aurora Borealis". He was born in 1812.
- 1918 The "Messenger Book" daily is published in Tbilissi (Georgia): the first Soviet newspaper in Armenian.
- 1923 The Soviet of People's Committee of the Armenian SSR creates the State Cinema of Soviet Armenia (HayFilm).
- 1953 Academician Hrachia Atcharyan (linguist) dies in Yerevan. He was born in 1876.
- 1958 Death of composer Vagharshak Srvandztian.
- 1959 The Armenian SSR Supreme Soviet confirms the new Education Policy of Armenia.
- 1984 The US House of Representatives accepts a resolution (number 247) requesting that the Government announce that 1985 04 24 be designated a "National Day of Commemoration of Man's Inhumanity to Man".
- 1984 The Permanent People's Tribunal recognized the Armenian Genocide.
- 1998 An international seminar took place in the Sorbonne (Paris) on the Armenian Genocide. It was organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Party and financed by the See of Cilicia.
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