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WITNESS OF MURDER NOT QUESTIONED
http://www.a1plus.am/en/social/2012/09/12/cmah
04:21 pm | Today | Social
In Armenia the review of the case of a person sentenced to life in
prison depends on the will of only one man. This man is Serzh Sargsyan.
"All the cases have been placed under a taboo," said Vahagn Manukyan,
lawyer of the convict Mher Yenokyan sentenced to life in prison.
The defense lawyer came to this conclusion after the prosecutors
refused to investigate new evidence in the case. The evidence proves
the innocence of the convict.
According to the lawyer, he submitted an 18-page application with
various facts and documents to the Office of Prosecutor General.
However, the refusal was a one-page answer without any substantiation.
Let us remind that in 1996, the 20-year-old student of the Medical
Academy Mher Yenokyan was sentenced to death, but in 2003 his death
sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He is charged with killing
a course mate.
Lawyer Vahagn Manukyan today reminded once again that his client has
stated for 17 years that he did not commit the murder.
Armine Harutyunyan, the sister of Aram Harutyunyan who was convicted
in connection with that case but is now at large, was an eyewitness of
the murder. However, neither investigators nor judges questioned her.
In the lawyer's opinion, it is a serious negligence: the witness of
the murder must be questioned.
By the way, Mher Yenokyan will appeal to the European Court of Human
Right against the 2003 decree of Robert Kocharyan, by which his death
sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
http://www.a1plus.am/en/social/2012/09/12/cmah
04:21 pm | Today | Social
In Armenia the review of the case of a person sentenced to life in
prison depends on the will of only one man. This man is Serzh Sargsyan.
"All the cases have been placed under a taboo," said Vahagn Manukyan,
lawyer of the convict Mher Yenokyan sentenced to life in prison.
The defense lawyer came to this conclusion after the prosecutors
refused to investigate new evidence in the case. The evidence proves
the innocence of the convict.
According to the lawyer, he submitted an 18-page application with
various facts and documents to the Office of Prosecutor General.
However, the refusal was a one-page answer without any substantiation.
Let us remind that in 1996, the 20-year-old student of the Medical
Academy Mher Yenokyan was sentenced to death, but in 2003 his death
sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He is charged with killing
a course mate.
Lawyer Vahagn Manukyan today reminded once again that his client has
stated for 17 years that he did not commit the murder.
Armine Harutyunyan, the sister of Aram Harutyunyan who was convicted
in connection with that case but is now at large, was an eyewitness of
the murder. However, neither investigators nor judges questioned her.
In the lawyer's opinion, it is a serious negligence: the witness of
the murder must be questioned.
By the way, Mher Yenokyan will appeal to the European Court of Human
Right against the 2003 decree of Robert Kocharyan, by which his death
sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.