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COURT DROPS "BEATING" CHARGES AGAINST HELSINKI ASSOCIATION MONITOR VEZIRYAN
12:49, February 13, 2013
A Yerevan court today dropped criminal charges against Helsinki
Association member Arman Veziryan who was involved in a fist fight
on April 30, 2012 while monitoring political campaigning activities
in the run-up to the May 6 parliamentary election.
Veziryan had followed HAK campaign volunteer Davit Gasparyan
distributing flyers to homes along Sedrak Sargsyan Street in Yerevan.
Sargsyan approached a home and, seeing the door ajar, tossed some
leaflets inside. The home owner, hearing, raised the alarm and
solicited the help of her neighbor Tigran Manoukyan, who was doing
repairs on his house.
Manoukyan chased Gasparyan and accused him of throwing unwanted items
into the house.
At this point, Veziryan intervened and he and Gasparyan got into
a shouting match. Blows were exchanged; Gasparyan landing two and
Veziryan, one.
The lower court referred to a decision by the Court of Cassation
(Arevik and Tzovinar Sahakyan,; November 1, 2012) were the definition
of a charge of "beating" was defined as two or more blows.
Thus the lower court dropped the charges against Veziryan and fined
Manoukyan 30,000 AMD.
http://hetq.am/eng/news/23288/court-drops-beating-charges-against-helsinki-association-monitor-veziryan.html
12:49, February 13, 2013
A Yerevan court today dropped criminal charges against Helsinki
Association member Arman Veziryan who was involved in a fist fight
on April 30, 2012 while monitoring political campaigning activities
in the run-up to the May 6 parliamentary election.
Veziryan had followed HAK campaign volunteer Davit Gasparyan
distributing flyers to homes along Sedrak Sargsyan Street in Yerevan.
Sargsyan approached a home and, seeing the door ajar, tossed some
leaflets inside. The home owner, hearing, raised the alarm and
solicited the help of her neighbor Tigran Manoukyan, who was doing
repairs on his house.
Manoukyan chased Gasparyan and accused him of throwing unwanted items
into the house.
At this point, Veziryan intervened and he and Gasparyan got into
a shouting match. Blows were exchanged; Gasparyan landing two and
Veziryan, one.
The lower court referred to a decision by the Court of Cassation
(Arevik and Tzovinar Sahakyan,; November 1, 2012) were the definition
of a charge of "beating" was defined as two or more blows.
Thus the lower court dropped the charges against Veziryan and fined
Manoukyan 30,000 AMD.
http://hetq.am/eng/news/23288/court-drops-beating-charges-against-helsinki-association-monitor-veziryan.html