NONE OF THE ACCUSED HAVE COMMITTED MURDER

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What impact will the amendments of articles 225 and 300 have on the “Case of Seven” and representatives of the opposition charged with these articles? Candidate of juridical sciences, expert Hrair Toghmasyan was not able to give an answer to “A1+”.

“The amendments must have an impact on most of the prisoners, if not everyone. The prisoners of the “Case of Seven” will feel the impact of the amendments, if the corpus delicti are omitted, charges are dropped and the Prosecutor General’s office finds that there should be an extenuation,” said Hrair Tovmasyan who is a member of the NA Working Group created for making amendments to articles 225 and 300 of the Criminal Code.

According to him, the name of article 300 of the RA Criminal Code “Usurpation of the state” contradicts the content of the article.

“The title of the article is usurpation of power and the article is about the actions taken to usurp that power.”

According to the candidate of juridical sciences, article 225 of the Criminal Code entitled “Mass murders” is also uncertain.

None of the accused of the “Case of Seven” has committed murder. The third part of article 225 states the murders that were committed during the disorder. The charges pressed against the prisoners after the events of March 1 are legally uncertain. Article 225 doesn’t define what riots are and it only mentions the types of disturbances, such as assaults, massacre and murders.”

Thus, the murders on March 1 don’t fit in the “Case of Seven” and articles 225 and 300 that the political prisoners are charged with.

What surprises Hrair Toghmasyan is that the CE Venice Commission has praised articles 225 and 300. “These articles contradict one another and they are complex.”