TRIAL OF ZHIRAYR SEFILIAN TO START ON JULY 2
Noyan Tapan
Jun 22 2007
YEREVAN, JUNE 22, NOYAN TAPAN. The trial of Zhirayr Sefilian,
coordinator of the social-civil initiative "Defence of Liberated
Territories", and Vardan Malkhasian, member of the "Fatherland and
Honor" Party, will start on July 2.
To recap, the trial will be chaired by Judge Mnatsakan Martirosian,
of the court of first instance of Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork-Marash
communities.
The court has examined and dismissed the defence’s petition to change
arrest as a measure of restraint and to quash the case. NT was informed
about this by Alina Yengoyan, spokeswoman for the RA Cassation Court.
The deadline for appointing the day of the trial’s start expires on
June 22.
Nevertheless, even at the end of the working day the office of
Judge Mnatsakan Martirosian – the secretary of court sittings, the
assistant to the judge and the judge himself – declined to provide
any information about the start of the trial.