Investigator had written eyewitness’s testimony
The court can't manage to apprehend the eyewitnesses for the case against the Armenian National Congress (HAK) activists.
According to the young activists' lawyer, the reason is because the testimonies that those eyewitnesses gave during the preliminary investigation are inaccurate.
During today's trial, the judge announced that eyewitness Avetis Amirjanyan was out of the country and Hayk Matevosyan was not in Yerevan.
"That eyewitness had a box placed near the scene of the incident and had seen all that took place at that moment," the activists' lawyer Stepan Voskanyan told "A1+".
The HAK activists' lawyer doesn't exclude that that eyewitness would give totally different testimonies in court.
"The prosecutors weren't interested in seeing those eyewitnesses give testimonies and that is why the eyewitnesses avoided showing up to court," mentioned Voskanyan.
The following is the testimony that eyewitness Hayk Matevosyan wrote during the preliminary investigation:
"I have read the testimony under which I sign. I think everyone knows how it was done, whether the testimony was read or not."
We remind that the four young activists, including Tigran Arakelyan, David Kiramijyan, Artak Karapetyan and Sargis Gevorgyan are charged with showing resistance to police officers and committing hooliganism near Swan Lake on
August 9, 2011.
Imprisonment has been selected as a precautionary measure for Tigran Arakelyan. During today's trial, Tigran Arakelyan declared once again that he didn't accept the charge.
Prosecutor Hakob Martirosyan continues to claim that there is full evidence of the HAK activists' guilt.
"There has not been any piece of evidence that would go against the evidence that I confirmed when the accusatory conclusion was read," the prosecutor told "A1+".
During the next trial, the other three youth, including David Kiramijyan, Sargis Gevorgyan and Artak Karapetyan will testify in court.
