NIKOL PASHINYAN SENTENCED TO 7 YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT

ArmInfo
2010-01-19 14:58:00

Arminfo. The editor-in-chief of "Haykakan zhamanak" newspaper Nikol
Pashinyan has been sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment, the court of
Kentron and Nork Marash Yerevan districts issued such a verdict today.

To recall, Pashinyan was accused for the violation towards a policeman
which was not dangerous for his life (the 1st part of the article 316
of Armenian Criminal Code), as well as for organization of the mass
disorders on 1-2 March 2008 in Yerevan (part 1 of the article 225).

For more than a year Pashinyan was escaping the law-enforcement
agencies and emerged from the underground in August 2009 after
proclaiming amnesty. The court under chairmanship of Mnatsakan
Martirosyan justified Pashinyan on the article 316 but accused him
on the article 225.