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    Emil Lazarian
  • 4 years ago
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Davit Tonoyan’s lawyers to ask for public court hearing on Monday

Panorama
Armenia – June 6 2022

Former Armenian Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan’s lawyers will request the court to make Monday’s hearing on his case open to the public, the legal team said in a statement. The hearing is scheduled for 3pm.

Tonoyan was arrested on 30 September 2021 on charges of “fraud and embezzlement of large sums of money” as part of a criminal probe into supplies of allegedly faulty ammunition to the Armenian army.

“The defense intends to share with the court documents proving that the charges are groundless. They do not contain confidential data and do not pose any threats to national security and public order,” the statement reads.

The lawyers claimed that holding the hearing in camera would lead to an “unjustified restriction on the open court principle and would violate the interests of justice.”

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS