SEFILYAN REFUSES TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS OF THE COURT
The Republic of Armenia Court of Appeals on Criminal and Military Cases dismissed practically all the petitions of Jirayr Sefilyan's and Vardan Malkhasyan's barristers during the trial, which continued today.
Jirayr Sefilian's barrister Ara Zakarian emphasized in his statement that the court's decision to monitor the defendant's telephone calls was illegal, because such actions are only possible under the law "On operational-investigation actions". There is no such law in our country, yet. The National Assembly hasn't still considered the relevant draft-law. Based on this, the barrister petitioned not to consider the decoding of telephone talks, since the monitoring of the calls was done illegally. However, the court deliberated on the site and decided that the monitoring was carried out with no violation of the law, since Article 284 of the Code of Criminal Procedure defines the order of carrying out investigative actions.
V. Malkhasyan's barrister Mushegh Shushanyan recalled that in the decoding of the defendant's speech it is written "it is necessary to fight against the authorities only with weapons" instead of the words "it is necessary to fight against the authority with their own weapons". This, according to him, was deliberately done by the investigation agency to create false grounds for the accusation. Taking into consideration the fact that the prosecuting party admitted the fact of incorrect decoding of the above-mentioned fragment and that the first judgment was based on the right variant, the judges called the barrister not to insist on his petition of re-listening to the speech recording. However, when M. Shushanyan insisted on his petition, it was decided to postpone the consideration of the petition till the stage of termination of court case.
Sefilyan's barrister also petitioned not to consider the protocol on search at the defendant's work place as prosecution evidence. "Only a criminal investigator on a concrete case may carry out search, but Hakobyan is not a criminal investigator on a concrete case. Consequently, he didn't have the right to carry out investigative action", A. Zakarian said. However, the court agreed to the investigation agency's fact on the necessity to search several places simultaneously and didn't satisfy the petition. Today the public prosecutor Artur Mkrtchyan asked to attach the xerocopy from the "Explanatory dictionary of contemporary Armenian language" to the case. In the dictionary, according to his confidence, barrister Mushegh Shushanyan's statement that only the imperative verbal form (which was not used in Vardan Malkhasyan's speech) can be understood as an appeal, is disproved. M. Shushanyan said that the rendered interpretation of the word "appeal" doesn't disprove their case and promised to speak on this in more detail later.
"The fact that my defendant didn't take any actions after Vahan Aroyan's warning call proves that he didn't intend to go into hiding," Ara Zakaryan, the counsel of Zhirayr Sefilyan.
According to him, one shouldn't rule out that the leakage of information about the planned detention of Zh.Sefilyan was organized by special services to incite him to escape and then detain him. To recall, several hours before Sefilyan was detained, Vahan Aroyan, another participant in the Karabakh war, had rung up Zh.Sefilyan and told him about the forthcoming arrest, referring to his friends' information.
Today the Court of Appeals on Criminal and Military Cases finished the trial phase. To note, tens of supporters of the opposition Heritage Party and the Union of Armenian Volunteers held an extempore meeting before the hearing. During the meeting, they demanded that Jirayr Sefilian, Vardan Malkhasyan and Vahan Aroyan no more be prosecuted. The prosecution, in their judgment is exceptionally a political command.
The next court session scheduled for September 25 will start with the closing speeches of prosecution, defence, and the defendants.
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