Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Former official jailed for participating in opp protests in Armenia

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Former official jailed for participating in opp protests in Armenia

    Interfax News Agency, Russia
    Oct 23 2008


    Former official jailed for participating in opposition protests in
    Armenia

    YEREVAN Oct 23


    A criminal court in Yerevan sentenced former chief of the Penitentiary
    Department Musheg Sagatelian to five years in prison for participation
    in March protests in Yerevan.

    Sagatelian was indicted of confronting and using force against a law
    enforcement officer and illegal storage of a weapon.

    The court also imposed a fine of 900,000 drams (about $3,000).

    Sagatelian was a representative of the campaign headquarters of former
    presidential candidate and leader of the opposition Armenian National
    Congress Levon Ter-Petrosian.

    As a result of clashes between opposition and law enforcement officers
    in Yerevan on March 1 ten people were killed and over 200 injured. The
    opposition was protesting the results of the February 19 presidential
    election.
Working...
X