Jhangiryan made speech for the prosecution

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08:42 pm | March 18, 2009

Politics

Armenia’s ex Deputy Prosecutor General Gagik Jhangiryan, charged
with violence against a government representative, today read out
a 50-page speech giving a legal-political analysis of the country’s
political scene after September 21, 2007. Jhangiryan named it a speech
for the prosecution.

Jhangiryan’s speech, especially the legal analysis, can be viewed as
a teaching and methodological manual for ordinary law-enforcers and
top officials who, as Gagik Jhangiryan says, lack ignorance and feel
thirst for legal knowledge. In particular, he meant deputy chief of
RoA Police Alexander Afyan who "had conducted an unwarranted search"
on March 1.

Judge Jora Vardanyan and Prosecutor Hovsep Sargsyan were obliged to
hear Jhangiryan’s sharp criticism addressed to Armenia’s law-enforcers
for two hours. In his speech, Gagik Jhangiryan proved that the power
had been usurped not by the authorities but by "the regime suiting
people like him."

"Today Armenia encounters a crisis of justice and equity. People
take their voice to the street in search of justice and fairness. All
other crises stem from the lack of justice," concluded Jhangiryan.

The ex Deputy Prosecutor General warned the judges and prosecutors
against retribution. "Do not forget that you will be boomeranged
against for their misdeeds," he said.

"I don’t beg your mercy. I seek justice and acquittal otherwise do
not long for forgiveness. God be your judge."

Jhangiryan’s speech was welcomed with loud applause.

The Court is to return a verdict on March 23.