Armenia`s Court of Cassation acquits Armenia`s premier 

ArmInfo. The RA Court of Cassation has overturned a verdict of guilty passed on Nikol Pashinyan in the March 1 case. 

This February, RA Prosecutor General Artur Davtyan appealed against  the verdict of guilty passed on Mr Pashinyan in 2010.  Nikol  Pashinyan was found guilty in the "March 1, 2008" case. Judge  Mnatsakan Martirosyan found him guilty of "organizing mass riots" and  sentenced him to 7-year imprisonment. Mr Pashinyan was also charged  with "violence against a public agent", but was acquitted. Later, the  court reduced the sentence and Mr Pashinyan was released in May 2011  under the amnesty declared on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of  Armenia's independence. In 2022, on the Pashinyan v Armenia case, the  ECHR has ruled that Armenia violated Articles 11 and 5 of the  European Convention on Human Rights.