The defense team of former RA Defense Minister David Tonoyan has issued a statement!
“The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has accepted the complaint of lawyer Irina Danielyan regarding the violation of the rights to liberty and security of former RA Defense Minister David Tonoyan and has officially forwarded it to the Government of the Republic of Armenia with a request to state its position.
The complaint was accepted for consideration under the “settled case law” procedure, meaning that the issues raised in it concern violations of rights for which the European Court has already established a stable and established legal framework. In other words, violations in similar situations have been repeatedly recorded by the court in the past, and there is an established legal assessment.
The complaint concerns:
the lawfulness of the detention, the reasonableness of its duration,
the reasoning behind the court’s decisions,
compliance with the principles of legal certainty and equality of arms.
As a reminder, David Tonoyan has been in custody for approximately three years.
At this stage, the investigation concerns solely the alleged violations of the Convention and does not address the question of guilt. This also does not predetermine the outcome of the trial.
Incidentally, we consider it necessary to emphasize that the Cassation Court of the Republic of Armenia also accepted a cassation appeal on a similar issue in the case of former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia David Tonoyan, but more than a year has passed since the decision on that cassation appeal was issued.
The trial in the Republic of Armenia is ongoing.