IN ARMENIA, OPPOSITIONIST KHACHATUR SUKIASYAN WHO QUITTED THE UNDERGROUND IS ARRESTED

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02 2009, 20:00

A couple of hours ago, Khachatur Sukiasyan, an activist of the
opposition and deputy of the National Assembly of Armenia, quitted
the underground and surrendered to law enforcement bodies.

Sona Truzyan, press secretary of the General Public Prosecutor of
Armenia, has reported that the deputy came to the Special Investigatory
Service and is kept there at present. Sukiasyan is charged under part
1, Article 225, "Organization of mass disorders", and will be arrested.

Let us remind you that the deputy and prominent businessman Khachatur
Sukiasyan, a colleague of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, was in search after
last year’s March events.

After the amnesty announced on June 19, his advocates petitioned
before the investigatory bodies about replacing the arrest that had
been chosen as the freedom-restriction measure for their client for
some other measure.

However, the Special Investigatory Service rejected the
petition. Arthur Grigoryan, one of Sukiasyan’s advocates, told
journalists that the rejection in fact meant a possible arrest of
the deputy in case he quits the underground.