On January 11, the Union of Young Conservatives (UYC) applied to French Ambassador to Armenia Serge Smessow and requested him to take steps for Sargis Hatspanyan to be grated the right to give the last honors to his relative.

The UYC informed the French Ambassador that “the father of the political prisoner Sargis Hatspanyan is dying.” The UYC expects that in this case the “Ambassador will do his best for the right to give the last honors to deceased parents to be granted to him as well.”

“Let us hope that, for this sake, the RA authorities cannot refuse the humanitarian request of our people’s ally, France,” the letter says.

Sargis Hatspanyan was sentenced to three years and six months of imprisonment for false denunciation. Last October, in his interview with the Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) newspaper he said that the ex-president Robert Kocharyan and his supporters were plotting the incumbent President Serge Sargsyan’s assassination.

T.P.