NO ONE RECOGNIZED AS AGGRIEVED PARTY IN CASE ON OCTOBER 23
INCIDENT
01-11-2007 11:59:00 | Armenia | Social
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 1, NOYAN TAPAN. No one has been
recognized as an aggieved party in the case on the incident,
which happened during the October 23 procession. According to
the information provided to Noyan Tapan by the Information and
Public Relations Department of the RA Police, that issue will be
solved on the basis of the conclusion of the forensic
examination. According to the same source, five out of the
procession participants: Shogher Matevosian and Nikol Pashinian,
the editors-in-chief of the "4th Power" and "Armenian Time"
newspapers, correspondingly, Petros Makeyan, the Leader of the
opposition Democratic Fatherland Party and both of his sons have
been charged with Part I, Article 316 of the RA Criminal Code:
to use violence towards a representative of the authoroties.
The defensive side considers the insident in itself to be
"unfair, unnatural and an instigation". According to Hovik
Arsenian, the defender of Shogher Matevosian, the defensive side
has an intention to prove the innocence of its defendants, as
well as the misfeasance of the policemen during the public
trial. According to the defender, the situation during the
procession gave rise to no necessity for taking special
measures.