Criminal Case Of Shant Haroutiunian Quashed

CRIMINAL CASE OF SHANT HAROUTIUNIAN QUASHED

Noyan Tapan
May 14, 2009

YEREVAN, MAY 14, NOYAN TAPAN. Yerevan Kentron and Nork-Marash
communities’ first instance court presided over by judge Edik
Avetisian, on May 13, quashed Shant Haroutiunian’s criminal case with
the charge of organizing mass disorders on March 1-2, 2008. Noyan
Tapan correspondent was informed about it by RA Cassation Court
Spokesperson Alina Yengoyan. The decision was made on the basis of
forensic expertise that recorded S. Haroutiunian’s being irresponsible
at the moment of doing the act he is charged with. The experts also
considered that S. Haroutiunian does not need a forced treatment,
and he was set free the same day.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS