CHARGE AGANIST ACTIVIST OF YOUTH GREEN MOVEMENT MARIAM SUKHUDIAN CHANGED

Noyan Tapan
Aug 19, 2009

YEREVAN, AUGUST 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The Erebuni Investigation Unit of
the RA Police Department of Criminal Cases changed within two days
the charge against Mariam Sukhudian, an activist of SOS Teghut youth
green movement.

The case was opened based on a material of Haylur news program
broadcast by the Public Television Company on November 13, 2008. In
the material, one of the pupils of boarding school No 11 in Nubarashen
district told about the sexual harassment by a teacher.

Ecolur agency reported that on August 13, 2009 Mariam Sukhudian
received a summons to give evidence as an accused person on August
15. The RA Criminal Code’s Article 135 Part 1 – Libel was indicated
in the summons as the article, under which she was charged. However,
on August 15 she was told that she was charged under another article of
the Criminal Code – Article 333 Part 2 Point 3 – False Crime Reporting
for Mercenary Purposes, which is punished with imprisonment for a
term of up to 5 years.

The new charge was indicated in the August 15 summons, by which Mariam
Sukhudian is to appear as an accused on August 19.