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Armenian opposition demonstrator sentenced to 18 months in prison
Noyan Tapan news agency
26 May 04
Yerevan, 26 May: The court of first instance of Yerevan's Kentron
and Nork-Marash communities presided over by judge Pargev Oganyan
on 26 May sentenced a participant in the April [opposition] rally,
Edgar Arakelyan, to 18 months in prison. The court thus found the
defendant guilty under Article 316 of the Armenian Criminal Code -
use of violence against government representatives. We should recall
that the defendant had attacked the chief of the troops department of
the Armenian Police, Maj-Col Saak Martirosyan, with a plastic bottle.
In his last speech, the defendant pleaded guilty, saying that
he regretted what he had done. The defendant said that he would
have never attacked the policeman, if he had a glass bottle in his
hands. He asked the trial to take into account that he was the main
bread-winner in his family.
[Passage omitted: The lawyer's speech in the trial]
Noyan Tapan news agency
26 May 04
Yerevan, 26 May: The court of first instance of Yerevan's Kentron
and Nork-Marash communities presided over by judge Pargev Oganyan
on 26 May sentenced a participant in the April [opposition] rally,
Edgar Arakelyan, to 18 months in prison. The court thus found the
defendant guilty under Article 316 of the Armenian Criminal Code -
use of violence against government representatives. We should recall
that the defendant had attacked the chief of the troops department of
the Armenian Police, Maj-Col Saak Martirosyan, with a plastic bottle.
In his last speech, the defendant pleaded guilty, saying that
he regretted what he had done. The defendant said that he would
have never attacked the policeman, if he had a glass bottle in his
hands. He asked the trial to take into account that he was the main
bread-winner in his family.
[Passage omitted: The lawyer's speech in the trial]