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NEXT ARMENIAN OMBUDSMAN TO CERTAINLY BE AN OFFICIAL
YEREVAN, JANUARY 21. ARMINFO. The next Armenian Ombudsman will
certainly be an official - the authorities will not make a mistake
for the second time, says the chairman of the Helsinki Committee of
Armenia Avetik Ishkhanyan.
When appointing Larisa Alaverdyan as Ombudsman President Robert
Kocharyan expected her to be his obedient servant. But she turned out
to be unexpectedly and uncontrollably active in protecting human
rights and protesting against tough treatment of detainees. The final
drop was Alaverdyan's report on the human rights situation in
Armenia, which much displeased the authorities, who reacted by,
first, framing up a bribery case against Alaverdyan's employee, then
seizing the office computer with working files and finally abolishing
the Ombudsman Institution at all.
Criticizing the opposition for its strange passivity in the case,
Ishkhanyan says that he will be against any candidate by a political
party. He personally will not agree to be Ombudsman just to see his
name appearing in the press for some time.
Asked if Ombudsman must be a lawyer, Ishkhanyan says: "Stalin's
public prosecutor - the butcher Vyshinsky was a lawyer, while the
world renowned human rights activist Andrey Sakharov not."
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