PROSECUTOR DEMANDED 6 YEARS

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08:47 pm | June 09, 2009

Politics

Prosecutor Hovsep Sargsyan petitioned the judge to sentence MP Hakob
Hakobyan charged with the case of March 1 to six years in prison.

By the demand of the prosecutor, Hakobyan must be acknowledged guilty
based on Part 1, Article 225 of the Criminal Code for organizing mass
disturbances and the penalty must be estimated starting when Hakobyan
was arrested on March 3, 2008.

In his accusatory statement, the prosecutor said that Hakobyan’s
accusation was substantiated and one of the reasons was that Hakobyan
and the others had provoked the masses to mass disturbances with
materials such as poles and truncheons. The prosecutor mentioned
Hakobyan’s wife as his custodian, lack of any charges in the past,
his health, participation in the Artsakh liberation war, as well as
many awards and medals as mitigating circumstances.

Hakob Hakobyan coldly accepted the petition of the prosecutor and
made a small speech. Addressing the audience, he said:

"We have to be thankful to them. They should have executed us. We
have caused a huge state revolt. What can the prosecutor do? Their
hands are bloody and they have to lock up people to conceal the
crime. They are throwing the blame on us. Thank God that they didn’t
kill us on-the-spot. Get up and leave."

While this was going on, advocate Arustamyan asked the judge for
15 days to get ready for his defense speech, but the judge ruled to
continue the trail on June 15 at 12 p.m.