AGAIN INJUSTICE WON IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM OF ARMENIA

ArmRadio.am
01.06.2006 16:17

RA Court of Appeal sentenced three 20-year-old young men Razmik
Sargsyan, Araik Zalyan and Musa Serobyan to life imprisonment. The
young people are charged with murdering fellow servicemen.

To remind, the accident occurred in 2003. First Instance Court of
Syunik marz charged the three soldiers with murder and sentenced
them to 15 years imprisonment. Disagreeing with the verdict they were
keeping a hunger strike for several months. They were assuring they
are in no way related to the crime.

Nevertheless, this fact was taken into consideration neither by the
First Instance Court nor by the Court of Appeal. Currently their
health condition is extreme. Law enforcers and attorneys said today
that parents of the killed soldiers also disbelieve that the murder
was carried out by the three young men.

“The investigation of this case at the Court of Appeal came to an
end, and again injustice won in the judicial system of Armenia,”
said Avetik Ishkhanyan, President of the “Helsinki” Committee.

According to Ishkhanyan, the Court based on the testimony of one of
the defendants only and cast a life sentence without considering the
most essential principles of trial.

“The Judge presiding over the hearing at the Court of Appeal solely
rejected all the mediations of the defense side,” said defender of
Razmik Sargsyan’s interests, attorney Zaruhi Postanjyan.

The attorneys assure they will apply both the Constitutional Court
and the European Court. They still hope to retrieve the justice.