SONA TRUZIAN: WE HAVE NEVER HAD 150 PEOPLE ARRESTED ON CASE OF MASS DISORDERS

Noyan Tapan
April 15, 2008

YEREVAN, APRIL 15, NOYAN TAPAN. As of April 15, 78 people are under
preliminary arrest within the framework of the criminal case on
instigating and organizing mass disorders in the city of Yerevan
examined by the RA Special Investigation Service. Sona Truzian,
the Spokesperson of the RA Prosecutor General, in her interview to
Noyan Tapan correspondent named the assertion of first RA President
Levon Ter-Petrosian on presence of 150 arrested people as "obvious
misinformation:" she asserted that we have never had 150 arrested
people. A signature on not leaving the country has been chosen as
a preventive punishment to another 16 defendants and another three
people have been arrested with the suspicion of taking an immediate
part in the mass disorders that happened on March 1-2, 2008.

20 criminal cases on 20 people have been sent to the court as
of April 15, and judicial enquiry on the part of three of them,
David Hambartsumian, Mesrop Zakarian, and Raju Petrosian, by the
signs of part 1, Article 316, RA Criminal Code, using violence to a
power representative, has been finished by the order of speeded up
investigation at the defendants’ request.

Cases on another 4 defendants have been finished within the framework
of the criminal case examined in the RA Special Investigation Service.