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    THE FIRST TRIAL AT THE NKR COURT OF APPEALS

    Monday, 02 March 2015 11:57
    http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1718:-the-first-trial-at-the-nkr-court-of-appeals&catid=1:all&Itemid=1

    On February 26, the Court of Appeal of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic
    held a sitting in the framework of the criminal case against the
    members of the Azerbaijani sabotage and reconnaissance group, which
    had illegally crossed the state border of the NKR, Dilham Askerov
    and Shahbaz Guliyev. The trial was held by judges Hrayr Abrahamyan
    and Karen Safaryan and chaired by Norayr Grigoryan.

    Judge G. Abrahamyan read out those articles, under which D. Askerov
    and Sh. Guliyev were accused, and then the defendants' lawyers,
    Eric Beglaryan and Arkady Israelian, presented the justification
    related to the appeal, according to which the decision taken by the
    court of the first instance of general jurisdiction does not satisfy
    their defendants.

    Eric Beglaryan noted that the first-instance court's decision regarding
    his client Askerov is partially to be appealed, and Arkady Israelyan
    assured that the decision regarding his client would be appealed
    completely.

    In turn, the public prosecutor, Karen Gabrielyan, presented the
    arguments regarding the trial and the expertise results, including on
    the part of espionage, murder, filming, kidnapping, and weapons. The
    assignee of killed Smbat Tsakanyan - Mekhak Tsakanyan - noted in his
    speech that he disagreed with the appeal against the sentence of the
    defendans, since, in his view, the court had taken a fair decision.

    During the sitting, defendants Dilham Asgaov and Shahbaz Guliyev,
    presenting their complaints, in particular, noted that they disagreed
    with the decision of the first-instance court of general jurisdiction
    of the NKR, as crossing the border between the NKR and Azerbaijan,
    they did not realize that it was illegal. The defendants assured that
    they had not committed espionage and pleaded not guilty to murder.

    "I was not involved with the special services of Azerbaijan and do not
    know whether Hasan Hasanov (the other, killed member of the criminal
    group) was an employee of the special services of Azerbaijan", said
    Dilham Askerov, adding that he hadn't killed Smbat Tsakanyan, it had
    been done by Hasan Hasanov. As for his videos placed at the Internet,
    Askerov could not answer who could do it.

    In turn, defendant Guliyev continued pleading not guilty on any of
    the articles of accusation.

    After hearing the sides, the court scheduled the next hearing for
    March 10.

    Let's remind that Dilham Askerov was charged for crimes under seven
    articles of the NKR Criminal Code and Shahbaz Guliyev - under five
    articles.

    The defendants were charged with espionage, crossing the protected
    state border of the NKR without corresponding documents or
    authorization, illegal possession of firearms and weapons, kidnapping
    with the use of force dangerous to life or health, with the use of
    weapons against a teenager, murder motivated by ethnic hatred. Dilham
    Askerov was also charged for the attempted murder of two individuals
    motivated by ethnic hatred.

    On December 29, 2014, Dilham Askerov was sentenced to life
    imprisonment, Shahbaz Guliyev - to 22 years in prison.

    Artsakhpress

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