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    "Soap bubble pricked"
    [08:39 pm] 13 March, 2009

    The chase, criminal charges and action against Armenia's ex deputy
    Prosecutor General Gagik Jhangiryan are artificial,' said Jhangiryan's
    lawyers in the Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan's Kentron
    district.

    Lawyers Lusine Sahakyan and Erwand Varosyan read out their speech for
    two hours citing the witnesses, Armenia's Criminal Code, Constitution
    and the European Charter on Human Rights. Relying on the facts they
    substantiated that Gagik Jhangiryan was prosecuted
    illegally. Moreover, the lawyers say he is tied for his political
    stance rather than for an alleged crime.

    Lusine Sahakyan cited the Prosecutor's statement according to which
    `Jhangiryan is dangerous for the country in the given political
    scene.' The Lawyers announced that numerous laws have been violated in
    view of their client: the force applied against the Jhangiryan
    brothers was inadequate and unlawful. Gagik Jhangiryan had been
    detained by masked men in accordance with a well-planned scenario.
    Their car had been stopped illegally, and the masked men assaulted on
    them breaking the car windows with guns. They dragged out the brothers
    of the car and threw them to the ground with the butt of automatic
    machines. Then shots were fired by the masked policemen which was
    later proved during the judicial inquiry. The court was unable to
    prove that Jhangiryan had done violence to a government representative,
    as the episode is only confirmed by Arman Harutyunyan and Tigran
    Aghvanyan `subjected to violence' Lusine Sahakyan noted in her speech
    that the Prosecutor had many times perverted the evidence and
    distorted the facts giving arbitrary interpretations. The Lawyer asked
    the court to return Gagik Jhangiryan innocent and reach a verdict of
    non-guilty.

    She also advised the judge not to forget about his oath in the
    jury-room. `Let's wait and see whether you perform the oath,' Lusine
    Sahakyan concluded her speech.

    Gagik Jhangiryan thanked his lawyers that they were able `to burst the
    soap bubble.'

    Gagik Jhangiryan will make a speech at 12, on March 18.
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