CHARGE TO GREEN ACTIVIST MARIAM SUKHUDYAN AGGRAVATED

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
18.08.2009 16:49 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Criminal investigation department of Erebouni
community of RA Police changed the article of the charge filed to
Mariam Sukhudyan, activist of the SOS Teghut youth green movement,
within two days. On August 13 Mariam Sukhudyan received a summons
to an interrogation dated on 15 August as an accused. The summons
mentioned the article of the charge, libel, in accordance with Part 1,
Article 135 of the Criminal Code of RA. Nevertheless, as it turned out
on August 15 she is charged under another article: Clause 3, Part 2,
Article 333 of the Criminal Code of RA, i.e. false crime reporting
aggravated with mercenary purposes.

This charge prescribes heavier sentence that the previous charge,
imprisonment for the term of up to 5 years.

The new charge is mentioned in the new summons dated on August 15
that invites Mariam Sukhudyan to an interrogation on August 19.

The case is initiated on the basis of TV program of the First Cannel
dated on November 13, 2008 where a pupils of the Nubarashen Boarding
School told about sexual harassment by the teacher. Mariam Sukhudyan
believes that she is persecuted for participation in the SOS-Teghut
campaign aimed at salvation of the Teghut forest.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress