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Monday, January 15, 2007

Injustice: Ruling Without Defense Attorneys



Armenia has a lot of work to do, especially with regards to justice:
Today the Review Court closed the case of Arman Babajanyan, editor-in-chief of Jamanak Yerevan newspaper. The court changed the sentence of 4 years imprisonment to 3 and half years. Babajanyan is accused of faking documents in order to evade military service as well as for stealing documents.

Babajanyan’s defense attorneys... did not appear to court today requesting to postpone the hearing because the committee has not issued its answer. Babajanyan was also supposed to make his defense speech today.

Babajanyan refused to make his speech without his defense attorney but the court ignored the fact and ruled 3.5 years of imprisonment in jail.

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