ARMENIAN EX-MINISTER’S BROTHER RECEIVES SUSPENDED SENTENCE

Aravot
March 27 2008
Armenia

"Siradeghyan received a conditional sentence"

Court trials of some people arrested as a result of the post-election
events ended yesterday [26 March]. Seryozha Siradeghyan, the elder
brother of [former Interior Minister] Vano Siradeghyan [who was in
the office in the 1990s], was released from the court room. He has
received a suspended sentence of two and a half years in prison.

Some reports say that Yura Mamyan [arrested together with Siradeghyan
and facing the same charges] received a suspended sentence as well. A
member of the Alternative initiative [which supports former President
Levon Ter-Petrosyan], Norayr Norikyan, was released from isolation
cell yesterday [26 March], after giving a written statement that he
will not leave Yerevan.