On December 13, during the briefings followed the NA regular sittings the deputy of the RA NA Armenia Faction Aram Vardevanyan touched upon the deputies of their faction released from the arrest.
“On August 2, at the NA first sitting of the eighth convocation, our faction, the With Honor Faction announced that the arrest was absurd in case of a person with the deputy’s status, if there was no consent from the NA. The Article 96 of the Constitution has even been read for several times during the NA sitting, and I have been one of those readers. But haven’t you seen how long should last this process, so this simple truth would be recorded?” Aram Vardevanyan said.
The deputy noted: “Nobody gave any solution to this, except the Constitutional Court, which, of course, is an extreme means, but the life showed that it was a practical means.”
Let us note that on November 9, the Constitutional Court satisfied the application of the deputies of the NA Armenia Faction, recording that the person not having deputy’s status being in prison, cannot be kept in jail from the moment of getting deputy’s status. On December 10, by the decision of the Court members of the faction Armen Charchyan, Mkhitar Zakaryan and Artur Sargsyan were released.