SENTENCE ON REGULAR SUSPENDED IMPRISONMENT PRONOUNCED ON CASE OF MARCH 1 EVENTS
Noyan Tapan
April 17, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 17, NOYAN TAPAN. The general jurisdiction court of
Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork-Marash communities presided over by judge
Gagik Avetisian by the April 16 sentence sentenced Ruben Voskanian,
the head of the Armenian National Movement (ANM) party Vanadzor Board,
to 2.5 years’ suspended imprisonment with a probation term of one
year and a half. By the defendant’s mediation the case was examined
by the speeded up investigation order.
R. Voskanian was accused by part 1, Article 225 prim, RA Criminal
Code, organizing and holding a public event by violation of the
established order, and by part 1, Article 316, using violence to a
power representative.
According to the prosecution, R. Voskanian recruited people and sent
to Yerevan to take part in the rallies, as well as used violence not
harmful for life and health to policemen in the morning of March 1
in Liberty Square.