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ARRESTED ARMENIAN RADICAL'S DEFENSE FILES AN APPEAL
YEREVAN, January 9. /Novosti-Armenia/. Defense of the leader of
Armenian radical Tseghakron party Shant Harutiunyan who was arrested
for clashes with the police in downtown Yerevan has filed an appeal
challenging the first instance court's decision about the arrest
and detention, Inessa Petrosyan, defense attorney of Haruniunayn,
said Thursday.
Before filing the appeal, the defense attorney met with Harutiunyan
who is currently in Yerevan-Kentron penitentiary institution and
urged him to stop his hunger-strike that is on for 15 days now.
Harutiunyan refused to stop the hungerstrike and is demanding to lift
the ban on meeting relatives, Petrosyan said.
She said her client is exhausted, Novosti-Armenia reports referring
to RIA Novosti.
On December 28 the first instance court of Kentron and Nork Marash
districts extended detention of Harutiunyan for another two months.
Armed with batons Harutyunyan's supporters made an attempt to hold an
unauthorized march on Mashtots Avenue on November 5 2013 and refused
to obey the police's order not to disturb the public order. The
clash involved several hundred demonstrators and one hundred police
officers. Fourteen people were arrested and charged with use of
violence against representatives of the authorities or threatening
violence and criminal damage to property using widely dangerous means.
Harutiunyan was arrested on November 8. He may face a penalty worth
from three hundred to five hundred times the minimum wages, arrest
for up to two months or imprisonment for up to a year.
Under a court decree Harutiunyan was transferred to Nubarashen
psychiatric hospital on November 19 for an examination, after which he
was taken back to Yerevan-Kentron penitentiary institution on December
19. The results of the examination have not been made public so far.
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14:16 09.01.2014
http://arka.am/en/news/society/arrested_armenian_radical_s_defense_files_an_appea l/
YEREVAN, January 9. /Novosti-Armenia/. Defense of the leader of
Armenian radical Tseghakron party Shant Harutiunyan who was arrested
for clashes with the police in downtown Yerevan has filed an appeal
challenging the first instance court's decision about the arrest
and detention, Inessa Petrosyan, defense attorney of Haruniunayn,
said Thursday.
Before filing the appeal, the defense attorney met with Harutiunyan
who is currently in Yerevan-Kentron penitentiary institution and
urged him to stop his hunger-strike that is on for 15 days now.
Harutiunyan refused to stop the hungerstrike and is demanding to lift
the ban on meeting relatives, Petrosyan said.
She said her client is exhausted, Novosti-Armenia reports referring
to RIA Novosti.
On December 28 the first instance court of Kentron and Nork Marash
districts extended detention of Harutiunyan for another two months.
Armed with batons Harutyunyan's supporters made an attempt to hold an
unauthorized march on Mashtots Avenue on November 5 2013 and refused
to obey the police's order not to disturb the public order. The
clash involved several hundred demonstrators and one hundred police
officers. Fourteen people were arrested and charged with use of
violence against representatives of the authorities or threatening
violence and criminal damage to property using widely dangerous means.
Harutiunyan was arrested on November 8. He may face a penalty worth
from three hundred to five hundred times the minimum wages, arrest
for up to two months or imprisonment for up to a year.
Under a court decree Harutiunyan was transferred to Nubarashen
psychiatric hospital on November 19 for an examination, after which he
was taken back to Yerevan-Kentron penitentiary institution on December
19. The results of the examination have not been made public so far.
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14:16 09.01.2014
http://arka.am/en/news/society/arrested_armenian_radical_s_defense_files_an_appea l/