Prosecutor demanded 6 years
Prosecutor Hovsep Sargsyan petitioned the judge to sentence MP Hakob Hakobyan charged with the case of March 1 to six years in prison.
By the demand of the prosecutor, Hakobyan must be acknowledged guilty based on Part 1, Article 225 of the Criminal Code for organizing mass disturbances and the penalty must be estimated starting when Hakobyan was arrested on March 3, 2008.
In his accusatory statement, the prosecutor said that Hakobyan's accusation was substantiated and one of the reasons was that Hakobyan and the others had provoked the masses to mass disturbances with materials such as poles and truncheons. The prosecutor mentioned Hakobyan's wife as his custodian, lack of any charges in the past, his health, participation in the Artsakh liberation war, as well as many awards and medals as mitigating circumstances.
Hakob Hakobyan coldly accepted the petition of the prosecutor and made a small speech. Addressing the audience, he said:
"We have to be thankful to them. They should have executed us. We have caused a huge state revolt. What can the prosecutor do? Their hands are bloody and they have to lock up people to conceal the crime. They are throwing the blame on us. Thank God that they didn't kill us on-the-spot. Get up and leave."
While this was going on, advocate Arustamyan asked the judge for 15 days to get ready for his defense speech, but the judge ruled to continue the trail on June 15 at 12 p.m.
