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SERGE SARGSYAN WILL NOT HELP ARMAN BABAJANYAN

Politics

Editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Zhamanak Yerevan” Arman Babajanyan who is sentenced to four years imprisonment, applied to the special committee with the RA Defense Minister at the head asking to stop prosecution against him.

According to the law adopted in 2003, all those citizens who are over 27 years old and have once escaped from military service, can pay a certain sum to the committee and avoid imprisonment. According to the advocates of Arman Babajanyan, the law is applicable in his case too. But it turned out that it is not.

“We have a written conclusion which says that the Committee cannot investigate those cases about which there is a court decision. This is clear as the committee cannot be higher than the court”, Serge Sargsyan said. He claimed that the committee has never discussed a case where a court decision has been made. “The committee discusses only the cases of those citizens who have volunteered to represent them”.

Arman Babajanyan was sentenced to four years imprisonment for document forgery and for escaping military service.