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.