"This ludicrous story has no precedent"
"This ludicrous story has no precedent," NA MP Miasnik Malkhasyan charged under the last year's post-election unrest said on June 15.
Miasnik Malkhasyan considers the case as groundless and preposterous and says it is a mere a political order.
"All political prisoners are innocent and are illegally kept in jail for 1.3 year. The criminal case is hence politicized. I am prosecuted on alleged charges - attempts to upset the constitutional order. During the whole trial the prosecutor acted illegally and unlawfully,"announced the defendant.
Miasnik Malkhasyan refuted all alleged contacts with Alexander Arzumanyan, Nikol Pashinyan, Hakob Hakobyan and Sasun Mikaelyanm charged with calls for mass disorders.
"The most immoral charges are the ten assassinations ascribed to us. This is the cruelest accusation bound upon us."
The defendant recalled his speech made from the NA rostrum: "I said that we would be tried one day for our participation in the Artsakh war. People laughed at me then but as you see the day has come."
Miasnik Malkhasyan concluded his speech with the following words: "Anyway, I am not a pessimist and I believe that things will still better and I shall be acquitted."
Today's court sitting was attended by Heritage MPs Anahit Bakhshyan and Stepan Safaryan. Mrs. Bakhshyan said she would willingly bear testimony on the March 1 occurrences.
Miasnik Malkhasyan is scheduled to make a final speech on June 16.
