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`The Witness Had Been Beaten Before Giving a Testimony on the Armenian
National Congress (ANC) Activists' Case,' an ANC Activist Says (Photo
Series and Video)
http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/08/31/104437/
August 31, 2012 15:41
The protest outside the prosecutor's office demanding to release the
ANC activists condemned to imprisonment has ended a short while ago.
`To release Tigran Arakelyan who has been in jail for almost one year,
to acquit our youths who were condemned by a complaisant court up to 6
years in prison and to launch an investigation and punish all those
who tried to hush up the case, as well as representatives of the
law-enforcement bodies that committed unlawful actions against lawyers
and youths on August 9,' Areg Gevorgyan, an ANC activist, pointed out
their demands.
Activist Zaruhi Hovhannisyan enumerated the violations committed by
the court regarding the case. According to her, Judge Gagik Poghosyan
didn't allow defendant Sargis Gevorgyan to finish his defense speech
and make the last plea before going to his chamber and the
prosecution summation was based only on the testimonies of police
officers and all testimonies of the ANC activists were neglected.
In Z. Hovhannisyan's words, one of the witnesses who was telling the
details of the incident stated in the courtroom that police officers
brought him to the court for different cases, in order that he
expressed their opinion and will and he had been beaten before being
brought to the courtroom.
Arpine SIMONYAN
National Congress (ANC) Activists' Case,' an ANC Activist Says (Photo
Series and Video)
http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/08/31/104437/
August 31, 2012 15:41
The protest outside the prosecutor's office demanding to release the
ANC activists condemned to imprisonment has ended a short while ago.
`To release Tigran Arakelyan who has been in jail for almost one year,
to acquit our youths who were condemned by a complaisant court up to 6
years in prison and to launch an investigation and punish all those
who tried to hush up the case, as well as representatives of the
law-enforcement bodies that committed unlawful actions against lawyers
and youths on August 9,' Areg Gevorgyan, an ANC activist, pointed out
their demands.
Activist Zaruhi Hovhannisyan enumerated the violations committed by
the court regarding the case. According to her, Judge Gagik Poghosyan
didn't allow defendant Sargis Gevorgyan to finish his defense speech
and make the last plea before going to his chamber and the
prosecution summation was based only on the testimonies of police
officers and all testimonies of the ANC activists were neglected.
In Z. Hovhannisyan's words, one of the witnesses who was telling the
details of the incident stated in the courtroom that police officers
brought him to the court for different cases, in order that he
expressed their opinion and will and he had been beaten before being
brought to the courtroom.
Arpine SIMONYAN