ArmInfo. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has accepted lawyer Irina Danielyan's complaint regarding the violation of the rights to liberty and security of former RA Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan and officially forwarded it to the Government of the Republic of Armenia with a request to state its position. This was stated in a statement by David Tonoyan's legal team.
According to the source, the complaint was accepted for consideration under a procedure according to which the issues raised in it concern violations of rights for which the European Court has already established stable and established case law. 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 justification for its duration, the reasoning behind the court decisions, and compliance with the principles of legal certainty and equality of arms.
The legal team reminds that Davit Tonoyan has been in custody for approximately three years. At this stage, the ECHR's review concerns solely the alleged violations of the Convention on Human Rights and does not address the issue of guilt or 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 former minister's case, but more than a year has passed since the decision on the aforementioned cassation appeal was made. The trial in the Republic of Armenia is ongoing," the lawyers said in a statement.
As a reminder, David Tonoyan is a defendant in a criminal case related to abuses in the supply of ammunition, including missiles. David Galstyan, the head of a company supplying weapons to Armenia, and Stepan Galstyan, former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, are also charged in this case. The former minister was in custody from September 2021 to August 2024. He was released on bail of 15 million drams.
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