The International Committee of Defense that pleads for 34-year-old Aramayis Avagyan charged of radical Islamist activity in Uzbekistan and a number of other serious crimes applied to the Uzbek authorities urging on them to consider the calls of the   EU to review Aramayis Avagyan’s, his friend’s and lawyer’s - Odil Kobilov- case in accordance with international standards and  Uzbekistan's legislation, reports the RFE/RL Armenian service . 

As the agency report, Avagyan and his friends were sentenced to seven years of imprisonment.

Avagyan +4 firm, that pleads for the prisoners, made a statement that Uzbekistan's National Security Service officers "illegally arrested Aramayis Avagyan, Furkat Juraev, Bektemir Umrzakov, Dilshod Aminov, and Akmal Mamatmuradovin, and that no one knew their whereabouts during 40 days. According to the statement, Avagyan and his friends were subjected to violence with an anticipation that they would make a confession. 

The statement was sent to the UN Secretary General, to the European Union , the OSCE, the UN Human Rights Council ,the  Human Rights Watch, the Amnesty International, and the Freedom House.

"Human rights activists and those involved or follow the development of the case are convinced that the criminal case was initiated with a purpose to deprive Avagyan from his business," says the statement. The statement also reminds: "after the government’s threats Avagyan’s lawyer Abdullayeva had to  abandon the case, whereas the second attorney, Odile Kobilov found himself in a situation where he had to defend his interests, as he was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. The criminal case against Odile Kobilov simply rules out the rule of law and trust in the Uzbek criminal justice.

On May 26 of 2016 in Vienna the OSCE Permanent Council issued a statement that calls to review the case of Avagyan and his lawyer Odile Kobilov.