THEY RAPED FEMIDA AND ENJOYED IT – 2
KIMA YEGHIAZARYAN
Hayots Ashkharh Daily
24 Dec 2008
Armenia
Only Closed Hearing
Yesterday Yerevan Criminal Court, under Mnatsakan Martirosyan’s
chairmanship, tried to continue the hearing on the "Case of the Seven",
in the Court of General Jurisdiction of Shengavit Community.
We should remind you that the seven defendants, Alik Arzumanyan,
Myasnik Malkhasyan, Hakob Hakobyan, Sasun Mikaelyan, Suren Sirunyan,
Grigor Voskerchyan, and Shant Harutyunyan are charged with the
organization of the mass disorder and attempts to usurp power.
Why we said, "they tried to continue" because the hearing that started
40 minutes late, was broken after a very short period of time.
Because of the uproar of the relatives of the defendants and the
revolutionary activists, the judge presiding over the hearing, M.
Martirosyan was obliged to stop the process.
We should underscore that the defendants of the "Case of the Seven"
and their supporters, the revolutionary activists who have occupied
the hall of the court, were trying to carry out their strategy of
dismantling the third power.
Yesterday the Chairman came to a decision to apply judicial sanction
against the seven defendants (asked them out of the hall), because
the seven defendants didn’t stand up when the court entered the hall.
The group of the lawyers headed by Arsenyan rebelled against the
sanction and started to shout, saying the behavior of the defendants
is not "hooliganism". They simply wanted to show that they are under
"political persecution" and they don’t trust the Chairman.
No doubt, a very "substantiated" argument. The before mentioned seven
defendants, who consider themselves "political prisoners" are simple
detainees and in this case they must respect the judicial procedure.
Not to jump from their chairs every now and then and fly at the judge,
only because the latter dared to call them "defendant". During the
hearings they become furious when addressed as "defendants".
In general these people’s behavior during the court procedure (they
use all the possible and impossible means to torpedo the process),
wouldn’t be tolerated in any country.
The "political prisoners" who usually hold forth on international
conventions, implementation of laws and legal state, their supporters
and companions-in-arm, actually don’t care a bit about the letter
of law. It is the third hearing under this case, but the judge can’t
even introduce proper order, because the revolutionaries continue to
pressurize the court and the plaintiff, by blackmail and intimidations.
And in the street LTP’s followers are ready to swallow all the
strangers" passing by. As for example last Friday when the furious
activists flew at Albert Bazeyan. Had he not fled the territory on
time the furious crowd would have butchered this political figure.
After all that happened, these people are trying to isolate themselves
from "March 1".
Whereas the impudent behavior that they are manifesting during
the hearings was used with ten times more energy during the spring
developments.
Not only have they privatized the territory of the court, but
also the hall. Yesterday, for example, Arzumanyan’s wife Melissa
Brown was furious by the fact that besides the relatives and the
companions-in-arm of the defendant, there were lots of strangers in
the hall, who have engaged their seats. And as a sign of a protest,
Brown rushed out of the hall shouting something. So they were not
satisfied with the presence of their relatives in the hall they wanted
to house the entire "village" there.
And what about the aggrieved and their relatives? Their presence in
the hearing is also important, isn’t it?
Yesterday the correspondents belonging to Armenian Pan National
Movement organized a protest demonstration; only because the court
attendants didn’t allow them enter the hall.
In any European country, moreover in their favorite European Court,
the journalists follow the court procedure by the monitor installed
in the room near the court hall. Our court has also provided those
conditions but the journalists belonging to Armenian Pan National
Movement didn’t want to sit quietly in the adjacent room, complaining
that the court is hindering their work.
It is evident that one of the leaders of March 1 mass disorder and
the main leader L. Ter-Petrosyan are absolutely not interested in the
normal process of the hearings. Because despite their statements they
don’t want to see the case revealed.
The main court procedure will start only after the "isolation" of
the participants.
There is no other way for shifting the process into a normal path,
than holding close hearings. We will over again become confident of
this fact during the next session on December 27.