Advocates punished as well
Judge of the "Case of Seven" Mnatsakan Martirosyan stayed in court with the accusers today.
After a thirty-minute intermission, the judge registered the absence of the defendants and decided to apply a judicial sanction against advocates Liparit Simonyan, Melanya Arustamyan and Varduhi Elbakyan based on the formulation that "they did not ask the judge's permission for not showing up to court".
He had already made the same decision for advocates Stepan Voskanyan and Hovik Arsenyan. This means that the Chamber of Advocates of Armenia must examine the issue of applying sanctions against five advocates if the counseling body gives its consent before that.
After announcing his decision, judge Martirosyan set the next date of the trial for March 23 at 12 p.m.
Yesterday President of the Chamber of Advocates Ruben Sahakyan had announced that he sees no violation of the law by advocates.
Let us remind that the deadline for penalties of political prisoners Alexander Arzumanyan, Miasnik Malkhasyan, Hakob Hakobyan, Sasun Mikayelyan and Suren Sirunyan ends on March 19, while Grigor Voskerchyan's ends much later.
No other parent showed up to court today besides the parents of Tigran Khachatryan and Gor Kyolyan-victims of the 10 murders of March 1. Members of the pan-Armenian movement and relatives of political prisoners were not protesting near the court again today.
