Koryun Piloyan was smiling
Television host from "H1" Television Artak Herikyan "testified" in favor of editor-in-chief of "Haykakan Zhamanak" daily Nikol Pashinyan today in court. Pashinyan had presented the evening broadcast of "Haylur" on March 1, 2008 where Artak Herikyan declared that representatives of Levon Ter-Petrosyan's team Khachatur Sukiasyan and Nikol Pashinyan were calling on the people near the Myasnikyan statue to calm down. Before showing the video, Pashinyan's advocate Lusine Sahakyan declared: "I think that the prosecutors believe "H1".
In general, the behavior of the prosecutors was frustrating the audience in court today. While Lusine Sahakyan was telling the court how the police beat the people at Freedom Square, broke the tents and attacked the people gathered near the Myasnikyan statute, the shots and the scenes of victims, prosecutors Koryun Piloyan and Harutyun Harutyunyan were smiling and laughing.
Many people from the audience had been near the Myasnikyan statue on March 1 and were not able to resist their anger. "What are you laughing at? Are you laughing because they killed people?" somebody shouted from the audience. After the intermediation of the judge and the inspectors, the audience calmed down and the court continued the investigation of Lusine Sahakyan's evidence.
With her videos and photos, the advocate proved that an army had moved toward Yerevan with ammunition before a state of emergency was declared on March 1.
The video also showed armed men dressed in civil uniforms among the army. During the showing of the videos, Koryun Piloyan kept standing up from time to time and objecting the judge who was allowing the showing. Lusine Sahakyan petitioned the court to attach the video materials to the case and acknowledge them as evidence. Piloyan's objections were not fruitful and the judge approved the advocate's petition.
"Before the declaration of state of emergency, the army had already interfered in the events and had committed illegal actions. Today the illegal actions and crimes committed by the military and the police have been ascribed to the opposition, including Nikol Pashinyan," Pashinyan's advocate Lusine Sahakyan told "A1+" after the trial. She asked for an intermission from the court to present new evidence. The trial will proceed tomorrow.
