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  • Arrest, Restraint Chosen To Ararat Zurabian Replaced By Signature On

    ARREST, RESTRAINT CHOSEN TO ARARAT ZURABIAN REPLACED BY SIGNATURE ON NOT leaving country

    NOYAN TAPAN
    http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=116118
    JU LY 29

    An accusation has been brought to 139 people within the framework of
    the criminal case filed on the events that happened on March 1-2 in
    Yerevan. As of July 28, 15 out of them were in custody, signature
    on not leaving the country was chosen on 8 of them, and 4 are in a
    search. It was mentioned in the notification sent to the National
    Assembly Ad Hoc Commission by the RA Prosecutor General. Commission
    Chairman, NA RPA faction Secretary Samvel Nikoyan publicized it at
    the July 29 commission sitting.

    According to the notification, the part separated from the criminal
    case to 21 people has been quashed and the criminal prosecution
    stopped. The judicial enquiry on 73 persons on 64 criminal
    cases out of 82 criminal cases on 95 persons sent to the court
    has finished. Under 64 judgements 5 people have been acquitted,
    31 sentenced to imprisonment from 6 months to 6 years, a fine has
    been fixed to 4, the punishment has not been used suspendedly to 33
    persons with use of Article 70, RA Criminal Code, a probation period
    has been fixed. A punishment milder than established by the law has
    been fixed with use of Article 64, RA Criminal Code to 1 out of 31
    persons sentenced to imprisonment.

    As Vahagn Haroutiunian, the senior investigator on especially
    important cases of the RA Special Investigation Service, the head of
    the investigation group on the March 1-2 criminal case, said at the
    commission sitting, by the instruction of RA Prosecutor General, the
    preliminary examination body, on July 29, also changed the restraint
    chosen to ANM Board Chairman Ararat Zurabian due to worsening of his
    health condition, arrest was replaced by a signature on not leaving
    the country. According to him, members of the NA Ad Hoc Commission
    made such a petition the day before and defendant's lawyer had made
    it earlier.
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