Armenian parliament attack ringleader files parole request
22.10.2019,
17:47
Nairi Hunanyan, who led an armed attack on the Armenian Parliament on October 27, 1999, killing eight people, and who is serving a life-sentence since being convicted in 2003, has filed a request for parole, the Ministry of Justice confirmed today.
YEREVAN, October 22. /ARKA/. Nairi Hunanyan, who led an armed attack on the Armenian Parliament on October 27, 1999, killing eight people, and who is serving a life-sentence since being convicted in 2003, has filed a request for parole, the Ministry of Justice confirmed today.
It said the application had been filed on September 11. Under Armenian law, the response is to be given within 80 days.
Twenty years ago, on October 27, 1999, a group of terrorists led by Nairi Hunanyan broke into the National Assembly chamber shooting and killing prime minister Vazgen Sargsyan, parliament chairman Karen Demirchyan and six other members of the parliament and government.
Their trial lasted from 2001 to 2003. The prosecution required capital punishment, but the death penalty in Armenia was abolished in September 2003.
Six terrorists were sentenced to life imprisonment, including the leader of the group Nairi Hunanyan, his brother Karen Hunanyan, their uncle Vram Galstyan (died in prison in 2004, the official version of death was suicide), Derenik Bejanyan, Edik Grigoryan (died in November 2017) and Ashot Knyazyan. Another group member, Hamlet Stepanyan, was sentenced to 14 years in prison (he died in May 2010, according to medical examination, from a heart attack). -- 0--
It said the application had been filed on September 11. Under Armenian law, the response is to be given within 80 days.
Twenty years ago, on October 27, 1999, a group of terrorists led by Nairi Hunanyan broke into the National Assembly chamber shooting and killing prime minister Vazgen Sargsyan, parliament chairman Karen Demirchyan and six other members of the parliament and government.
Their trial lasted from 2001 to 2003. The prosecution required capital punishment, but the death penalty in Armenia was abolished in September 2003.
Six terrorists were sentenced to life imprisonment, including the leader of the group Nairi Hunanyan, his brother Karen Hunanyan, their uncle Vram Galstyan (died in prison in 2004, the official version of death was suicide), Derenik Bejanyan, Edik Grigoryan (died in November 2017) and Ashot Knyazyan. Another group member, Hamlet Stepanyan, was sentenced to 14 years in prison (he died in May 2010, according to medical examination, from a heart attack). -- 0--
