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“WHAT AN ATROCIOUS CRIME IS ASCRIBED TO ME?” /VIDEO/

Politics


Today the Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork-Marash communes resumed the trial on the case of ex deputy Prosecutor General Gagik Jhangiryan.


“How long can justice be ravished and scoffed at? I have urged you many time not to yield to formalities and to weary people.You had better publicise the verdict “bound to them,” Gagik Jhangiryan advised Judge Jora Vardanyan today.


Before Jhangiryan’s speech Judge Vardanyan had denied the motion for the defendant’s immediate acquittal. “The court cannot satisfy the motion unless it studies the materials and evidence at hand,” said the judge.


I am convinced that you realise the illegal and unlawful steps you are taking against your former colleague and friend. You sue a person who has committed no crime or offense against the humanity and state. You have illegally kept me in prison for a year. I wonder what an atrocious crime has been ascribed to me and what consequences it has had to keep me imprisoned for a year,” said Gagik Jhangiryan. He called for the judge’s rejection.


You are constantly harassing me as you know that I can neither offend nor dishonour for you are a Vardanyan and I am a Jhangiryan. I give you a friendly advice to withdraw from the case. Let them appoint a younger judge unfamiliar to me.


Jhangiryan’s Advocate Lusine Sahakyan said: “You have a biased attitude to the case.” The advocate noted that the judge had denied their prayers to review the restraint without any grounds.

TENSIONS WERE GROWING


Today Judge Jora Vardanyan again banned recording the sitting and ordered bailiffs to send out cameramen. The judge violated pressmen’s rights and Jhangiryan’s right to an open and transparent legal procedure. “I don’t want the disks to be distributed,” Vardanyan explained his decision.


If you administer justice and are guided by law you must encourage distribution of the disks. you have banned recording as you are assured that the trial is accompanied by rough breaches and unlawfulness.


The atmosphere in the courtroom heated up after photographer Gagik Shamshyan was forced out. The head of the court tore Shamshyan’s jacket while forcing the latter off the court.