Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Samson Khachatryan was released from courtroom

A former Soviet Union and European boxing champion and opposition activist Samson Khachatryan has been released from the courtroom.

The spokesperson for former Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Arman Musinyan told Tert.am that the court sentenced him to one year in prison but defined a probation period and released him immediately from the courtroom.

Samson Khachatryan was being tried at the Court of First Instance at Yerevan’s Nork-Marash administrative districts.

Arrested on March 1 during a rally by the opposition Armenian National Congress, he was accused of “exerting violence against a representative of law-enforcement body”.

The court found him guilty in the charges brought against him, but Khachatryan would not plead guilty.

Armenian News

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