Naira Zohrabyan to Appeal to ECHR to Prove She Was Right and Nikol Was Wrong: 'Hraparak'

The newspaper 'Hraparak' reports that on April 13, although the Constitutional Court decided that the Armenian National Assembly's decision to terminate Naira Zohrabyan's powers as the chair of the Human Rights Protection and Public Affairs Committee was in accordance with the Constitution, Constitutional Court member Yervand Khundkaryan wrote a special opinion and sent it to the National Assembly. In this opinion, he expressed his disagreement, stating that the issue falls within the jurisdiction of the Ethics Committee of the National Assembly, which should determine whether the MP committed an ethical violation or not. Only after that could a decision be made to remove her from the position of committee chair. Khundkaryan has concluded that the Assembly's decision regarding Zohrabyan should be recognized as unconstitutional.

It is worth recalling that in December, the 'My Step' faction stripped Zohrabyan of her position as head of the Assembly committee after she used the word 'jeh' in a Facebook post directed at the public. Subsequently, the Prosperous Armenia Party appealed to the Constitutional Court to contest the decision of the parliamentary majority.

Naira Zohrabyan told us that she is likely to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to prove that she was right and that Nikol was wrong.