WORKING GROUP SET UP AT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WITH AIM OF DEVELOPING BILL ON AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS IN ARTICLES 225 AND 300 OF RA CRIMINAL CODE

Noyan Tapan

Jan 26, 2009

YEREVAN, JANUARY 26, NOYAN TAPAN. By the January 23 order of the
speaker of the RA National Assembly Hovik Abrahamian, a working group
was set up with the aim of developing a bill on making amendments and
additions to Article 225 (Mass Disorder) and Article 300 (Usurping
State Power) of the RA Criminal Code.

The head of the working group – the chairman of the NA Standing
Committee on State and Legal Issues, head of the Armenian delegation
in the PACE David Harutyunian was instructed to present proposals by
February 19.

The members of the NA Ad Hoc Committee on Inquiry into the March 1-2
Events in Yerevan and Their Reasons will also participate in the work
of the group.

As NT correspondent was informed by the chairman of the ad hoc
committee Samvel Nikoyan, in its conclusion the committee will propose
revising the indicated and some other articles of the Criminal Code
so that "it would be impossible for the prosecution and the accused
to confuse political goals with criminal ones".