{"id":20434,"date":"2022-09-12T07:39:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T07:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=20434"},"modified":"2022-09-12T07:39:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T07:39:16","slug":"chief-counsel-for-armenian-prisoners-of-war-siranush-sahakyan-visits-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=20434","title":{"rendered":"Chief Counsel for Armenian Prisoners of War Siranush Sahakyan Visits Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On September 10, Siranush Sahakyan, Human Rights Attorney and chief counsel for Armenian prisoners of war and their families at the European Court of Human Rights visited the Greater Los Angeles Area at the invitation of the Armenian Legal Center for Justice and Human Rights (ALC), the Armenian Bar Association (ABA), and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Western United States of America (ARF-WUSA) Central Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sahakyan is the president of Yerevan\u2019s International Comparative Law Center (ICLaw) and was invited to Los Angeles to provide updates on the work she and her colleagues are doing to bring Armenian prisoners of war home from captivity in Azerbaijan.  Sahakyan is the human rights attorney filing cases with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on behalf of the Armenian prisoners of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sahakyan not only serves as the president of the ICLaw, but is also the co-founder of Path of Law NGO and an adjunct lecturer at the American University of Armenia where she also serves as the coordinator of the master\u2019s program in human rights and social justice. Through her work with the ICLaw, she is currently working in partnership with the Armenian Legal Center for Justice and Human Rights on gathering evidence, witness testimony, preparing legal dossiers to file with the ECHR, as well as other international bodies responsible for such cases, on behalf of the families of prisoners of war and those identified as missing in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ALC, based out of Washington D.C. is an international legal institute that was founded in 2016 with a generous grant from the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Endowment Fund.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saturday morning, at the invitation of the ARF-WUSA Central Committee, Sahakyan provided a public briefing on the status of Armenian POWs at the Beshir Mardirossian Youth Center in Burbank, where daylong \u201cArtsakh Day\u201d activities were being hosted by the ACF Burbank Chapter, Homenetmen \u201cSipan\u201d Chapter, ARS \u201cAraz\u201d Chapter, and ARF \u201cAghbalian\u201d Gomideutyun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sahakyan was introduced by Steve Dadaian, co-chair of the ALC, who also moderated and fielded questions from the capacity audience in attendance. During her interactive presentation, Sahakyan shared meticulously collected facts and evidence about the Armenian prisoners of war held by Azerbaijan, and the criminal inhumanity of the Azerbaijani regime.
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