YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Zhamanak Yerevan" ("Time Yerevan") Arman Babajanian has decided not to submit an application about early conditional release to he interdepartmental commission in November. Nikolay Baghdasarian, defence lawyer of Arman Babajanian who has been sentenced to 3.5 years' imprisonment for evasion of military service, told NT correspondent that the issue of constitutionality of the regulatory norms of the activity of the commission on issues of early conditional release shall be dicussed by the RA Constitutional Court. In case of these norms' being recognized as anticonstitutional, A. Babajanian will have the opportunity to apply to court with the request of his early release. The delay is due to A. Babajanian's health, which, according to his lawyer, has become worse: he had a stroke before being imprisoned. The lawyer expressed a hope that the management of the detention place will take into account the activity characterizing positively Arman Babajanian: he created a library in the prison hospital and organized English courses. N. Baghdasarian said that his second application - about an unduly severe punishment, which he has filed to the European Court of Human Rights, has been attached to an earlier application about A. Babajanian's preliminary detention and transferred to a judge of the European court. According to the lawyer, the court is expected to respond quickly to these applications.

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