YEREVAN, JUNE 27, NOYAN TAPAN. The new lawyer of Arman Babajanian, the editor-in-chief of the "Zhamanak Yerevan" newspaper, who has been detained, applied to the European Court of Human Rights with the fact of a free speech violation. Nikolay Baghdasarian, the lawyer of Arman Babajanian, informed journalists on June 26 that they are implementing discrimination towards his defendant, as the law on alternative service adopted since 2003 by the resolution of the RA Government has not been enforced in his case, "whereas, law is equal for everybody and the above mentioned law has already been enforced for 2067 citizens avoiding military service." It should also be reminded that Arman Babajanian was detained on June 26, 2006. A criminal case was filed against him for simulating documents and avoiding the levy of military service term through fraud. Later the court condemned Arman Babajanian to a 3 and a half year imprisonment. N. Baghdasarian also mentioned that the defensive side has applied to the Court of Appeal and been refused without any grounds

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