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| Gayane Hakobyan sentenced to probation |
| 2023-06-10 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] A court in Yerevan sentenced Gayane Hakobyan to three years and 11 months probation in the case of an attempted kidnapping of the son of the Prime Minister of Armenia. Hakobyan was released in the courtroom. The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Gayane Hakobyan's three lawyers decided to terminate her defense, saying that Nikol Pashinyan  gave direct instructions to the law enforcement and judicial systems to issue a guilty verdict, and the authorities are putting pressure on the investigation and the court. On May 31, the case went to court. On June 5, the Court of Appeal transferred Hakobyan under house arrest, but on the same day, the court, at the request of the state prosecutor, returned her to custody. On June 9, the court held a session behind closed doors, which came as a surprise to the defense. Gayane Hakobyan, the mother of a soldier killed in the 2020 Karabakh war, has been charged with attempting to kidnap Ashot Pashinyan, Nikol Pashinyan's son. According to the parents of the dead soldiers, the activists met Ashot Pashinyan on the street and offered him to go with them to the Yerablur military cemetery, he got into the car, but then jumped out of it while driving and ran away. The Yerevan Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction sentenced Gayane Hakobyan in the case of attempted kidnapping of the son of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan Ashot to 3 years 11 months suspended. The court released Gayane in the courtroom, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told in the NGO "Call of Sons", where Hakobyan is a member. Ashot Pashinyan told reporters that the meeting was held behind closed doors at the request of Gayane Hakobyan. Recall that according to the version of the investigation, which was announced by On May 17, at the Court of Appeal, the parents of the dead servicemen approached the son of the Prime Minister and began to "shout out lines." A woman who introduced herself as the mother of the deceased soldier suggested that he get into a car parked nearby to talk, and when they got into the car, she started the car, explaining that she wanted to drive away. Ashot Pashinyan himself said that they tried to kidnap him. According to him, he agreed to the woman’s offer to talk in the car, she began to talk about the 2020 war and the losses, and then began to behave inappropriately and violate traffic rules. In response to the demand to stop the car, the woman stated that her son had been killed, she had nothing to lose, so she could even kill Pashinyan, that she would take him to the military cemetery, and then decide whether to let him go. At the intersection, when the driver slowed down, Ashot jumped out of the car. A few seconds later, when he got up, he was hit by a white Toyota: according to Ashot, in this car he noticed the parents of the dead servicemen who were standing in the courtyard of the Court of Appeal. |
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