Two policemen, prosecution eyewitnesses in the trial of Harutyun Torosyan, Hrayr Isakhanyan, Andranik Kyeosyan and Edward Zeytunyan, charged with public disorder during clashes with police on July 19,2016, in the Sari Tagh neighborhood of Yerevan, testified today in court that they can’t identify any of the defendants.
Only three of the eighteen defendants were in court. The others had been banned from the courtroom for six hours at the previous session.
Today’s trial of eighteen members of the Sasna Dzrer armed group that seized a Yerevan police building in July 2016 and held it for two weeks, devolved into near chaos, forcing the judge to call for seven recesses.
The trial of Jirayr Sefilyan and six others charged in 2016 with illegal arms purchase and possession and with conspiracy to seize government buildings in Yerevan is going nowhere fast.
Yegnukian’s lawyer, Tigran Hayrapetyan, has again filed a petition with the courts to have the charges levied against him by the country’s Investigative Committee dropped.
Lambaryan, injured in the July two-week stand-off at a Yerevan police building, is awaiting surgery at the convicts’ hospital.
Senior Warrant Officer Gagik Mkrtchyan, wounded on July 17 during the standoff with the armed opposition Sasna Dzrer group, died today in a Yerevan hospital.
Founding Parliament member Alek Yenikomshian has been released from pretrial detention.
Yenikomshian to be Released from Pretrial Detention