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    RA APPEAL COURT KEEPS UNCHANGED SENTENCE ON CASE OF SARGIS HATSPANIAN

    Noyan Tapan
    June 3, 2009

    YEREVAN, JUNE 3, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA Appeal Court presided by Mher
    Arghamanian, by the June 2 judgement kept unchanged the sentence of
    Yerevan Kentron and Nork-Marash communities' first instance court on
    the case of citizen of France Sargis Hatspanian.

    It should be mentioned that S. Hatspanian was found guilty of false
    denunciation and was sentenced to 3.5 years' imprisonment. The ground
    of the charge was the interview under the title "An attempt upon
    Serzh Sargsyan's life?" published in Haykakan Zhamanak daily's 2008
    November 4 issue, in which S. Hatspanian referring to news heard from
    his friend mentioned that "an attempt upon S. Sargsyan's life will
    be made very soon."

    Lawyer Hovik Arsenian in his complaint presented to the Appeal
    Court mentioned that the sentence is groundless, there is no corpus
    delicti envisaged by the article, therefore he petitions to reverse
    the judgement and to make a judicial act on aquittal. The other lawyer
    Robert Revazian in his complaint mentioned that there is corpus delicti
    of false denunciation when a person applies to a state body or power
    bodies empowered to file a criminal case. The lawyer emphasized that
    the article cannot be considered as false denunciation, as it is only
    an opinion, a supposition.

    As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by R. Revazian, the defence
    party is going to appeal against the sentence at the Cassation Court.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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