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IT IS PROPOSED ADDING NEW ARTICLE - 301/1 TO CRIMINAL CODE OF RA
Noyan Tapan
http://www.nt.am?shownews=1012083
Feb 11, 2009
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 11, NOYAN TAPAN. During the February 11 sitting of
the working group which was set up with the aim of developing a bill
on amendments and additions to Articles 225 and 300 of the Criminal
Code of Armenia, the head of the group, chairman of the RA National
Assembly Standing Committee on State and Legal Issues David Harutyunian
proposed adding a new article - 301/1 to the Criminal Code. In the
new article, actions aimed and not aimed at usurping power will be
separated and different punitive measures will be envisaged for these
actions. The new article defines forcing the president of Armenia,
the National Assembly, the government, the Constitutional Court (by
committing violence against them or threatening to commit violence)
to take or not to take a power-involving action as a new type of
crime which is not aimed at usurping power.
D. Harutyunian proposed stipulating clearly in Article 225 on mass
disorder what mass disorder is. In the version that the working
group is currently discussing, mass disorder is a group action which
is accompanied by violence, pogroms, arson, destruction or damage
of property, use of fire-arms, explosive substances or devices,
and armed resistance to representatives of authorities and poses a
threat to public security. The expression "accompanied by kilings"
was removed from the article (it will be stipulated in Article 104),
and a new punitive measure (arrest of up to 3 months) for participation
in mass disorder was added. The matter concerns people who did not
take actions described in the article on mass disorder.
According to the National Assembly PR Department, the next sitting
of the working group will be held at the beginning of next week.
Noyan Tapan
http://www.nt.am?shownews=1012083
Feb 11, 2009
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 11, NOYAN TAPAN. During the February 11 sitting of
the working group which was set up with the aim of developing a bill
on amendments and additions to Articles 225 and 300 of the Criminal
Code of Armenia, the head of the group, chairman of the RA National
Assembly Standing Committee on State and Legal Issues David Harutyunian
proposed adding a new article - 301/1 to the Criminal Code. In the
new article, actions aimed and not aimed at usurping power will be
separated and different punitive measures will be envisaged for these
actions. The new article defines forcing the president of Armenia,
the National Assembly, the government, the Constitutional Court (by
committing violence against them or threatening to commit violence)
to take or not to take a power-involving action as a new type of
crime which is not aimed at usurping power.
D. Harutyunian proposed stipulating clearly in Article 225 on mass
disorder what mass disorder is. In the version that the working
group is currently discussing, mass disorder is a group action which
is accompanied by violence, pogroms, arson, destruction or damage
of property, use of fire-arms, explosive substances or devices,
and armed resistance to representatives of authorities and poses a
threat to public security. The expression "accompanied by kilings"
was removed from the article (it will be stipulated in Article 104),
and a new punitive measure (arrest of up to 3 months) for participation
in mass disorder was added. The matter concerns people who did not
take actions described in the article on mass disorder.
According to the National Assembly PR Department, the next sitting
of the working group will be held at the beginning of next week.