SPEEDED UP COURT EXAMINATION USED AND SUSPENDED IMPRISONMENT DETERMINED ON ANOTHER CASE OF MARCH 1 EVENTS
Noyan Tapan
April 24, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 24, NOYAN TAPAN. Yerevan Criminal Court presided over by
judge Vardan Abrahamian by the April 23 decision sentenced 25-year-old
Artashes Matevosian accused by the article of mass disorders to 4
years’ suspended imprisonment, with 2 years’ probation term. By the
defendant’s mediation the case was held by the order of speeded up
court examination.
Court examination on case of resident of Talin Aram Avagian (presided
over by judge Yerem Yesoyan) finished in the general jurisdiction
court of Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork-Marash communities. He was
accused of using violence to a power representative (Article 316,
RA Criminal Code). The latter did not admit the accusation brought to
him, according to which at about 7:30 am, March 1, in Yerevan, near
the Embassy of France he showed resistance to power representatives,
hit, used bad language. Prosecutor Koryun Piloyan mediated to sentence
A. Avagian to 3 years’ imprisonment. The court sustained laywer Liza
Grigorian’s request to give her time to prepare her defence speech. She
will make her speech at the next sitting, on April 29.
The examination of case against Hovhannes Ghazarian accused by the
same article was postponed in the same court due to the absence of
lawyer Nazeli Vardanian (judge Arayik Melkumian).
A decision was made at the RA Administrative Court, according to
which examination of applications of former employees of RA Foreign
Ministry Vladimir Karapetian, Karine Afrikian, Marta Ayvazian, and
Arakel Semirjian will start on May 14, presided over by judge Hovsep
Bedevian. They challenge the legality of the decision of dismissing
them from work and system.