Davit Ishkhanyan appealed to RA HRD from Baku prison.
“I greet everyone.
We learned from the press that Ruben Vardanyan appealed to the human rights defender of the Republic of Armenia to visit him. I don’t know if the respected defense attorney will have the responsibility and determination to visit and see us, and in that case he will have more detailed information and get to know how the entire investigation was conducted, with what serious and gross violations both the entire investigation and the trial were conducted, with gross violations of human rights, international law, international norms, including the procedure of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
At the end of the trial, during my last speech, I could not say my full speech. at least 30-40% did not let me say the final word. But I managed to say what I want to say to my people now, and make a small quote:
“This case is not opened against 15 people, this case is opened against the Armenian people and Armenian statehood with clear goals and long-term strategy. I had doubts about that during the examination, and during the trial it became my conviction. Time will show the truth of my thoughts and words.”
As for HRD Azerbaijan, Sabina Aliyeva, human rights defender of Azerbaijan, visited us yesterday, and we were able to pass on some information to her. I had prepared a letter of application to deliver to him since March 12, but for about a month or two, for some reason, I could neither see him nor deliver it. Yesterday, I submitted my application letter, and there I had one specific request: that the complete Azerbaijani and Armenian versions of our judgment should be mediated and forwarded to my family and relatives.
The human rights defender promised that he would convey the Azerbaijani version to my family and try to mediate.
As for the human rights defender of the Republic of Armenia, I now want to appeal to him orally to mediate and receive the full texts of our indictments and the full text of our judgment in Armenian and Azerbaijani versions from the relevant structures of Azerbaijan, perhaps through his colleague, and pass them on to my family and relatives.
As for these difficult times, I will only wish our people strength of spirit, will and unity, and I must say: be strong.”
National Assembly of Artsakh Republic
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