Refusing to listen to eyewitnesses
Eyewitness of NA Deputy Hakob Hakobyan's trial Mushegh Antonyan went to court today from the "Chorort Ishkhanutyun" newspaper edition.
He was accompanied by NA Deputy Armen Martirosyan. The eyewitness had spent the night at the newspaper edition because he was afraid that he might be abducted by police officers. Let us remind that there was one case of abduction yesterday.
At the courtroom, eyewitness Mushegh Antonyan denied the testimonies given during the preliminary inquiry, saying that he had simply signed them.
After the eyewitness's prosecution, judge Gagik Avetisyan released the appeal of the Police Chief of the Malatia Police Headquarters by which he informs the judge that the police weren't able to arrest the eyewitness due to the interference of NA Deputy Armen Martirosyan, leader of the "New Times" party Aram Karapetyan and others.
Prosecutor Hovsep Sargsyan refused to prosecute the remaining eyewitnesses and the judge went on to the next stage of investigating the materials of the criminal case. The next trial will be held tomorrow at 11:30 a.m.
The trials of NA Deputy Myasnik Malkhasyan and former mayor of Abovyan Grigor Voskerchyan were in progress today at other courtrooms at different hours.
Grigor Voskerchyan's advocate Mushegh Shushanyan said that the prosecutor wanted to release the testimonies of people who were out of the country, but refused to prosecute those who were in the building at that time. According to the advocate, there were two eyewitnesses one of which was pivotal.
According to the materials, it was head of the Abovyan pre-electoral headquarters and a large part of the actions were implemented through the eyewitness. When judge Gagik Poghosyan decided to approve the petition of prosecutor Ashot Nadoyan, Voskerchyan said that there was no sign of respect towards the court and the audience began to applaud.
During Myasnik Malkhasyan's trial, prosecutor Harutyun Harutyunyan also intermediated to not prosecute the remaining eyewitnesses because the other prosecutors were satisfied with the testimonies.
