Ernest Vardanyan’s Family: “Court Severe Verdict Reached Secretly of Mother”
Politologist, journalist Ernest Vardanyan’s family cannot understand what Ernest’s sin is and finally whose political order it is that he was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment charged with espionage and treason by the Supreme Court of the unrecognized Republic of Transnistria.
30-year-old Ernest Vardanyan’s cousin Lilit Aghekyan, who lives in Gyumri, told JNews that the 2-month long suit was absolutely closed, far from the eyes and ears of the relatives and the society. And even the court composition is unknown.
“We are unaware of the charge brought against, of one who has kindled all this, of the reason why just Ernest has been chosen as a target. Yesterday we knew that a court session has taken place secretly even of his mother. She knew about only in the evening. She was told that her son has been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for a grave crime,” says Lilit Aghekyan.
Ernest’s family succeeded to get official information on his sentence from dnieter.ru which published a message released by the press service of Transnistria National Security on Ernest’s 15 years of imprisonment on December 16 under a strict regime.
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