16:02, 9 June 2023

YEREVAN, JUNE 9, ARMENPRESS. The woman suspected of attempting to kidnap Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s son has been found guilty and given a 4-year suspended sentence. The judge ordered Gayane Hakobyan, a mother of an Armenian soldier killed in the Second Nagorno Karabakh War, who is suspected of attempting to kidnap Ashot Pashinyan, to 1 year probation. She was released from pre-trial detention.

The judge also ordered a travel ban for Hakobyan, banning her from exiting the country without probation officers.

Hakobyan was detained on suspicion of attempting to kidnap Ashot Pashinyan on May 17.