Parliamentarians from the Council of Europe, the continent’s chief human rights watchdog, warned Armenia on Tuesday to refrain from pressuring its judiciary, ONA reports citing Reuters.
The statement came after hundreds of protesters briefly blocked access to courts of Armenia on Monday heeding a call from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
“Political stakeholders must refrain from actions and statements that could be perceived as exerting pressure on the judiciary,” Yuliya Lovochkina and Andrej Sircelj, co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Armenia, said in a statement.
“The independence of the judiciary is a pre-requisite for the rule of law,” added the organization, which can only make recommendations to other bodies.
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