ARMENIAN OPPOSITION ACTIVIST GETS SUSPENDED PRISON TERM
Haykakan Zhamanak
Sept 4 2008
Armenia
Yesterday [3 September], the judge of Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork-Marash
district court of general jurisdiction, Yerem Yesoyan, delivered a
suspended sentence on Armenian Pan-National Movement board member
and political prisoner Vahagn Hayotsyan.
Hayotsyan was released in the courtroom. Prosecutor Ashot Nadoyan
sought two years of suspended term. Judge Yesoyan ruled that Hayotsyan
be sentenced to 18 months’ suspended term with a two-year probation
period. The case has brought the number of political prisoners who
are still in detention to 75.