| Contrary to the PACE requirements, our authorities still keep the politicians from the opposition arrested giving them groundless accusations. The courts keep on mechanically adopting the petitions about extending the terms of arrested persons. But they do not give any convincing justification to that petitions. First of all we do not understand why those people are kept imprisoned, will they ran away or “continue their criminal activities”?
The second question which any fair observer can raise is the following: whether the criminal cases are so difficult that two months are not enough to prove those people crime. Let’s observe Alexander Arzumanyan’s, Ararat Zurabyan’s and Karapet Rubinyan’s cases. (I note these people, intellectuals, whom I know personally, and have no doubt about their innocence). One of the articles brought against them is 300/1 about usurpation. People who are accused of usurpation are condemned to 10-15 years of imprisonment. It is a very serious article, a true state crime. Whether two months (1 March-1 May) were not enough time to find out they were guilty or not. What difficult investigation do they carry out up to current? If any of them has become a minister, lawmaker or head of district by using violence on Murch 1, their guiltiness is justified and those cases should be sent to the court. But two months were quite enough to find out this.
Otherwise if a politician publicly declares “these authorities are n\bad and should resign” and it is considered as usurpation, no oppositionist will remain in the world, the opposition in every country of the world says just it. The “long explanation” of criminal articles is very specific for the Soviet jurisprudence when telling an anecdote about Brezhnev was considering an “anti-Soviet propaganda”?
In reality we all understand why the politicians do are kept in prisons. Not to go out and add the opposition’s potential. But that Reason, as I understand, is far from the legal standards. | 
