BEST SOVIET TRADITIONS CONTINUE

This is the impression of the speech of the counsel for prosecution Janna Kotikyan in the trial of Arman Babajanyan, the Editor-in-Chief of the Times Yerevan.
In the first instance court of Armenia, there is one justice on the bench, whereas Ms. Kotikyan addressed “justices”, as it was accepted in good old times, about 20 years ago. In the Republic of Armenia the counsel for prosecution cannot prompt or propose the justice on the sentence, whereas Ms. Kotikyan proposed sentencing Arman Babajanyan to one year of imprisonment for avoiding military service and 4 years for forging documents, all in all, sentence him to 4.5 years of imprisonment.
Another “Soviet manifestation”. Janna Kotikyan started her speech with the words, “the trial was compliant with all the rules of trial.” But is it one of the rules of the trial to be 30 minutes late for the trial, like Janna Kotikyan did? Of course, in the Soviet years we had seen a district attorney be more powerful than the judge. The counsel for prosecution thinks the accusations for avoiding military service and forging documents are grounded. Whereas, Arman Babajanyan’s attorney thinks that the accusations for stealing and forging documents are groundless. Vahe Abovyan and Armine Arakelyan broke relations with Arman in 2002. Hence, the documents, namely the certificate of marriage and the birth certificates should have been stolen before 2002, whereas in 2005 the birth certificate was used to take the child to school. Moreover, since 2002 they had not announced that their documents could have been stolen from their house or forged. Armine Arakelyan stated this only during the interrogation. “The accusations against Arman Babajanyan are based on suppositions, and the doubts are interpreted in favor of the defendant,” stated Robert Grigoryan.
The counsel for prosecution announced that it is legal to sue a person on the grounds of an anonymous letter, and the counsel for defense listed a number of cases provided by the NKR laws when the anonymous letter cannot be grounds for suing.
Arman Babajanyan confessed avoiding military service. His attorney said, “I felt protected when Arman Babajanyan avoided military service, and if he is imprisoned, I will not feel more protected. He repents and he is his most rigid judge. He can be corrected without insulation from the society.” Robert Grigoryan proposed dismissing the accusation for forgery and sentence Arman Babajanyan to a punishment other than imprisonment for avoiding military service. “Instead of sustaining him at the expense of the government he could be helpful to the state.”
In the next sitting of the court Arman Babajanyan will make his final speech and only the verdict of Justice Mnatsakan Martirosyan will remain to hear.

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