After one of the longest and most dramatic court sessions in recent memory, Samvel Karapetyanhas scored a significant legal and symbolic victory: the court has lifted restrictions on his public speaking.
The decision came at the end of a grueling 14-hour hearing in Yerevan, with just a single 30-minute break, during which the Anti-Corruption Court considered whether to tighten the preventive measure against the Tashir Group owner. In the end, the court refused to return Karapetyan to pretrial detention and left him under house arrest, rejecting the prosecution’s push for a harsher approach.
“This was an absurdly intense example of political persecution,” Karapetyan’s lawyer Aram Vardevanyan said after the hearing.
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