Court`s decision "on kidnapping" of PM`s son to be announced on May  20. Mother of deceased soldier faces 4 to 8 years in prison

ArmInfo.The Court of General Jurisdiction of First Instance of the city of Yerevan (residence in  Shengavit) has completed consideration of the petition for arrest as a measure of restraint against the mother of the deceased soldier Gayane Hakobyan in the case of "attempted kidnapping" of the Prime Minister's son. The decision will be made public on May 20 at 3:00pm.

According to human rights activist Ruben Melikyan, the case is  voluminous and a lot of materials have been considered, and the judge  wants to publish not the final part of the decision, but the entire  decision.  "Under these conditions, purely legally, the  considerations of the court are understandable. However, from the  point of view of higher values, it is certainly unacceptable for Mrs.  Gayane to spend one more day under arrest, especially considering the  fact that she went on a hunger strike>, he said.

Melikyan added that the defense side presented several alternative  preventive measures at once instead of detention: from house arrest  (on the condition of being able to regularly visit the "Yerablur"  pantheon) and administrative control to the payment of bail  (approximate amount: 10 million drams) and surety (willingness  expressed by ten MPs from both opposition factions of the National  Assembly and actor Hrant Tokhatyan). "Unfortunately, the investigator  did not change his position and even objected to house arrest," the  lawyer said.

On May 17, the Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper, owned by the prime  minister's family, reported on the attempted kidnapping of Ashot  Pashinyan, blaming members of the Call of Sons organization, which  unites the parents of the servicemen  killed in Nagorno-Karabakh. The  newspaper reported that members of the organization forced Pashinyan  Jr. to get into their car, but he managed to jump out of the car and  was hit by another car. He was injured and turned to law enforcement  agencies. Later, a criminal case was opened in the Investigative  Committee under the article "Kidnapping". Meanwhile, the "Call of  Sons" organization categorically denies all these claims.

If the court satisfies the petition for the arrest of the mother of  the serviceman Zhora Martirosyan, who died during the 44-day war,  Gayane Hakobyan, then this implies a punishment in the form of  imprisonment for a term of four to eight years.