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    AzerNews Weekly, Azerbaijan
    Jan 7 2009


    Armenian court convicts political analyst`s attacker


    07-01-2009 04:39:57

    An Armenian court has convicted an individual charged with making an
    attempt on the life of a well-known local political analyst, the
    Regnum news agency reported.
    The country`s Northern Criminal Court sentenced Arshak Aghababayan,
    nicknamed Turk Arshak, to 12 years in jail for executing an attempt to
    kill Levon Melik-Shahnazarian.
    According to the indictment, Turk Arshak and German Konjorian
    attempted to kill the Armenian analyst on orders from an Azerbaijani
    named Akhan. Both men, who came to Armenia from neighboring Georgia,
    traveled to the village where Melik-Shahnazarian lived. After
    discovering his home on April 22, 2008, the suspects fired a gun at
    him from a three-meter range. The bullet hit the window frame and
    bounced astray without hitting him. Several days later, Turk Arshak
    made a phone call to Melik-Shahnazarian demanding that he stop his
    media statements and threatening to kill him and his family if the
    statements continued. The analyst, who tape recorded the telephone
    call, reported the call to law-enforcement agencies, resulting in Turk
    Arshak`s arrest on May 8.
    According to the report, Aghababayan`s father died while he was still
    a child, and the boy was raised by an Azerbaijani woman who was a
    Georgian citizen. Therefore, he was given the "Turk" nickname.
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