EX-ARMENIAN DEPUTY PROSECUTOR WHO BACKED OPPOSITION GETS 3-YEAR PRISON TERM
Interfax
March 23 2009
Russia
A Yerevan court has sentenced former Deputy Armenian Prosecutor General
Gagik Dzhangiryan to three years of imprisonment, press secretary of
the Armenian Court of Appeal Alina Yengolyan told Interfax on Monday.
Dzhangiryan was found guilty of offering resistance when he was
arrested. Dzhangiryan’s term of imprisonment started on February 23,
2008, the day he was arrested.
The arrest followed his announcement at the February 22 opposition
rally that he supported the opposition and that the presidential
election that took place on February 19, 2008 were falsified. Former
Armenian President Robert Kocharian decreed to dismiss Dzhangiryan
on February 23, 2008.
The Armenian opposition led by former Armenian President Levon Ter-
Petrosian staged a rally last February, which evolved into clashes
with police on March 1 in which ten people were killed and over 250
were injured.