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Armenian Bar responds to prosecution of Catholicos Karekin II
Religious autonomy under international human rights law
Courts interpreting international human rights instruments, including the European Convention on Human Rights (to which the Republic of Armenia is a state party), have consistently recognized that, while the freedom to hold religious beliefs is absolute, the expression and organization of religion may be subject to state regulation only where it is prescribed by law and is strictly necessary to protect public safety, public order, health, morals, or the rights and freedoms of others. In particul
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Those who claim that Catholicos Karekin II and the Armenian Apostolic Church are not persecuted, should have their heads checked, but they won’t, because they are of course Pashinyan supporters, who support that traitor’s persecution of the Catholicos and the Church for opposing his treason and appeasement of Azerbaijan and Turkey. Any patriotic opposition to all this treason and appeasement, is “inconvenient” and a “nuisance” for Pashinyan and his supporters, and that is why he tries to silence them through brute force. It will eventually spectacularly backfire on him for certain.
He doesn’t have the authority. He is committing a criminal act and must be imprisoned. After all, pashinyan is no stranger to a prison cell. He will nostalgically be at home.
leave church business in the hands of the church ant not in the hands of politicians, interference should never be allowed or tolerated,