Prosecutor General of Armenia demands Nikol Pashinyan`s acquittal in "March 1" case on cassation

ARM INFO
Feb 16 2022
Naira Badalian

ArmInfo.Armenia's Prosecutor General Artur Davtyan has appealed the 2008 conviction against current Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on cassation.  

To recall, Pashinyan was found guilty in the case of the riots on  March 1, 2008.  On January 19, 2010, the Court of General  Jurisdiction of Yerevan, chaired by Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan,  found Pashinyan guilty under Part 1 of Article 225 of the Criminal  Code of Armenia – "organization of mass riots" and sentenced him to 7  years in prison. Nikol Pashinyan was also accused under Part 1 of  Article 316 of the Criminal Code "Using violence against a  representative of the authorities", but he was acquitted of this  part.  Later, the court halved the term, and in May 2011, Pashinyan  was released under an amnesty in honor of the 20th anniversary of  Armenia's independence.  Already in 2022, the European Court of Human  Rights (ECHR) in the case of Nikol Pashinyan v. Armenia ruled that  Articles 11 (freedom of assembly and association) and 5 (right to  liberty and security of person) of the European Convention on Human  Rights had been violated.