"We're not expecting amnesty"
Tomorrow the Appeals Court will hear the appeal filed by Nikol Pashinyan's advocates against the verdict reached by the first instance court.
In an interview with "A1+", advocate Lusine Sahakyan did not express any hope that there would be a change tomorrow.
"We no longer have hope in the judicial system and have no expectations from tomorrow's trial. We just need to use all governmental instances to appeal to the European Court. Of course, it would be wonderful for us to be mistaken and to have the Appeals Court reach a fair verdict for Nikol Pashinyan," said Sahakyan. Nikol Pashinyan has been sentenced to 7 years in prison.
Lusine Sahakyan finds it strange that people are talking about the need for Nikol's amnesty. "It is very bad to see people talking about the act of applying or not applying amnesty. We must expect the verdict of justice and not amnesty."
Nikol Pashinyan's advocate added that if the judicial act were legal, the first instance court would be obliged to apply amnesty, which it hasn't.
Lusine Sahakyan said she was surprised by the Prosecutor General's statement according to which they would protest in the case of no amnesty.
"I don't know what the prosecutor meant when he said that amnesty would be applied after the verdict went into effect. There can be no amnesty after the verdict is in effect. In that case, who will apply the verdict? Everything is clearly stated in the Amnesty Proclamation," said Lusine Sahakyan and concluded that if the prosecution is truly concerned about the application of amnesty for Pashinyan, it had to at least a demand for amnesty along with the protest-appeal.
Let us remind that prosecutor Harutyun Harutyunyan has also filed a protest to the Appeals Court, demanding to reach an accusatory verdict under Part 1, Article 316 of the RA Penal Code (assault against a state representative).
