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HUSIK BAGHDASARYAN RELEASED

Politics


Commander of a Masis battalion Husik Baghdasaryan has been put on a conditional release today. Remind that the Cassation Court of the Republic of Armenia had found Husik Baghdasaryan guilty of carrying illegal weapons /Article 235 of the Criminal Code/.


Husik Baghdasaryan was tried for carrying 16 illegal cartridges. Note that Husik Baghdasaryan has a right to carry a fowling piece but the court found that the cartridges were not intended for the fowling piece. Masis's court had sentenced Baghdasaryan to a three-year imprisonment. The Cassation Court had later reviewed the sentence and reduced it to two years.


Baghdasaryan's Advocate Vardan Zurnachyan is going to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.


We have ample grounds to appeal to the European Court. They haven't taken into consideration some mitigating circumstances. We demand to acquit Baghdasaryan as his arrest is groundless,” Vardan Zurnachyan said to A1+.


Remind that Husik Baghdasaryan backed Levon Ter-Petrosyan during the February 19 Presidential election.