It took Prosecutor Hovsep Sargsyan exactly 1 hour and 45 minutes to deliver his statement for the prosecution in the criminal trial of RoA National Assembly Deputy Hakob Hakobyan. In it,  he demanded that Hakob Hakobyan get six years imprisonment. Despite the fact that the original court case of the "March 1st Seven" had been split up into individual trials, except for Alexander Arzumanian and Suren Sirounyan, the prosecution statement referred to all the defendants in that case and to individuals linked to it, including Nikol Pashinyan. In his statement, the prosecutor claimed that it had been proven that Alexander Arzumanian, Suren Sirounyan, Myasnik Malkhasyan, Nikol Pashinyan, along with others, had organized and coordinated the public unrest of March 1, 2008 and that they had personally made payments of 1,000 to 5,000 drams to residents of Malatya to assemble at Freedom Square and Myasnikyan Square. The prosecutor found that the testimony of Hakob Hakobyan and others that they had been subjected to beatings and pressure by member of the preliminary examining body and that their initial testimony should be voided as being not credible. Finding Hakob Hakobyan guilty of Article 225 of the RoA Criminal Code, Prosecutor Sargsyan demanded a six year sentence for the defendant, retroactive from the day of his arrest. As extenuating circumstances, the prosecutor noted the defendant's poor health, having no prior arrests and his participation in the Artsakh War. At the conclusion of the prosecutor's speech, Hakob Hakobyan declared, "You have a ton of blood on your hands so you have to put people away to cleanse that blood." Melanya Arustamyan, Mr. Hakobyan's defense lawyer, motioned the court for a fifteen day recess in order to prepare her defense statement. Judge Gagik Avetisyan gave her till June 15 to do so. An emotional Mr. Hakobyan cried out, "What difference will it make? One day is enough. They'll not listen to one thing we say anyway." Melanya Arustamyan commented, "In essence, Hakobyan is guilty in so far as he was at Freedom Square on the morning of March 1 and that he was in the vicinity of the mayor's office, seeing to it that the crowd didn't beat the police. They are persecuting people for having a personal opinion. It's a restriction of one's freedom of speech."