Attorney Hovik Arsenyan as well as the defendant, Gohar Veziryan, made speeches for the defense. Mrs. Vezirayan called the prosector’s actions a disgrace and decsribed the judge as being trapped in a web of manipulations.
When asked by the judge why a criminal case hadn’t been brought, if this was the case, attorney Arsenyan answered that the preliminary investigative body concluded that the actions of the bailiffs were within the law.
Reporter Gohar Veziryan is being charged with that very crime, “behavior disrespectful to the court”. At the core of the indictment is the testimony of witnesses Shahen Ohanyan, Artur Pilosyan, Rafael Stepanyan and Murad Grigoryan. On the day of the incident, while removing Gohar from the court for “disrespectful behavior”, they escorted to the use of physical force. Even though the court physician registered the traces, he didn’t...