29 January 2009, 22:00
Imprisoned Armenian MPs demand convoking a session with their participation
Deputies of the National Assembly of Armenia, accused on the "Case of Seven", namely - Akop Akopyan, Sasun Mikaelyan and Miasnik Malkhasyan - demand from the Parliament's speaker to convoke a session with their participation and the presence of the Public Prosecutor, so that the latter could present proofs of their guilt of organizing mass disorders on March 1 last year, which were accompanied by murders, and actions aimed at violent seizure of power.
Under assertions of the imprisoned MPs, within 11 months of their custody no evidences of their guilt have been found.
According to Ovik Arsenyan, advocate of Sasun Mikaelyan and Miasnik Malkhasyan, those accused under the "Case of Seven" had never met each other in real life; moreover, some of them even did not know each other before the beginning of litigation. Meanwhile, it was written in the criminal case files that they "had reached preliminary consent and distributed their roles in advance."
The advocate has also expressed his bewilderment with the fact that evidences of a certain participant of the Karabakh War from Ashtarak were taken as the basis of the charge moved against Miasnik Malkhasyan. The war veteran asserts that at the rally on March 1 Miasnik Malkhasyan called people to use arsons and robberies to achieve change of power. At the same time, the materials of the criminal case contain a video record of Malkhasyan's speech made on March 1 at the rally, where he had called people not to give in to provocations and preserve calmness: "For some unknown reasons, not the record, but the evidences of that person were used as the basis for charges."
Author: Lilit Ovanisyan Source: CK correspondent
