NIKOL PASHINYAN SENTENCED TO 7 YEARS IN PRISON

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.01.2010 13:52 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The first instance court of Kentron and Nork
Marash community of Yerevan has found Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper
editor-in-chief Nikol Pashinyan guilty of organization of disorders
under article 225.1 of the RA Criminal Code and sentenced him to 7
years in prison.

At that, judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan acquitted Pashinyan on charges
on violence against a public agent (article 316.1)

Nikol Pashinyan has been he editor-in-chief of Haykakan Zhamanak
newspaper since 1999. After March 1-2, 2008 disorders he was wanted
by the police. On July 1, 2009 he yielded himself to authorities
and was detained. On January 10, he ran for parliament from the 10th
constituency but did not succeed.