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Լուսանկարում ձախից աջ՝ Էդգար Պետրոսյան, Մարինա Պողոսյան, Մնացական Մարտիրոսյան

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 A sanction was applied by judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan against prosecutor Edgar Petrosyan, accuser in the case of human rights defender Marina Poghosyan. The Prosecutor did not obey the instructions of the judge, and the judge delivered a warning therefore. During the interrogation of Arpi Meras, who was declared victim, the prosecutor’s nerves were shot and he was about to enter into a debate with the judge. The fact of the matter is that during interrogation, Arpi Meras often told that she did not remember this or that circumstance. With regard to one of the episodes of the case the victim announced that she did whatever she was told to do. Accused-on-trial Marina Poghosyan, who is the President of “Veles” Human Rights NGO, put a question to the victim — if she did whatever she had previously been told to do, was it possible that at present anyone told her to give testimony against her? It was here where the prosecutor flared up and և jumped up to object the question, and received sanction therefore. It is not clear what the prosecuter was so worried about. Perhaps 81-year-old Arpi Meras was going to naively say that she was sent by the preliminary investigation body to give testimony against the human rights defender. Anyhow, she did not say anything like it, as the judge removed Poghosyan’s question after applying a sanction against the prosecutor. Sanction greatly annoyed the prosecutor, he even wrote an objection during the trial to the decision the judge had rendered, and submitted there and then. You can watch the interrogation of Arpi Meras in the video material.

By ARSHAK DAVTYAN

http://m.lragir.am/index/arm/1/right/view/149940

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