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Thursday, 27 May 2004
TWO ARMENIAN OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS RELEASED, ONE SENTENCED
By empty (5/27/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Two senior Artarutiun members who were taken into custody following the violent dispersal by police early on 13 April of participants in a peaceful rally calling for the resignation of President Robert Kocharian were released late on 25 May, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported the following day. Aramazd Zakarian and Zhora Sapeyan, both members of the Hanrapetutiun party, admitted to having \"publicly insulted\" senior government officials. Also on 25 May, a local court sentenced 24-year-old Edgar Arakelian to 18 months\' imprisonment for having thrown a plastic bottle at a police officer during the clash between demonstrators and police on 13 April.
Two senior Artarutiun members who were taken into custody following the violent dispersal by police early on 13 April of participants in a peaceful rally calling for the resignation of President Robert Kocharian were released late on 25 May, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported the following day. Aramazd Zakarian and Zhora Sapeyan, both members of the Hanrapetutiun party, admitted to having \"publicly insulted\" senior government officials. Also on 25 May, a local court sentenced 24-year-old Edgar Arakelian to 18 months\' imprisonment for having thrown a plastic bottle at a police officer during the clash between demonstrators and police on 13 April. (RFE/RL)