Armenian Aggression
Azerbaijan announces verdict on trial of Armenian terrorist in Baku
By Trend
The trial on the criminal case of 13 members of an Armenian terrorist armed group ended in the administrative building of the Baku Court of Appeals, Trend reports on July 22.
The members of the group are Haykaz Hovanesyan, Varazdat Manukyan, David Stepanyan, Levan Tosunyan, Artur Baghdasaryan, Serop Avakyan, Varazdat Arutyunyan, Zhora Manukyan, Hrair Herabyan, Narek Gasparyan, Grigor Kuregyan, Ashot Gevorkyan, and Martin Agramanyan.
Each of the accused was sentenced to six years of imprisonment in a general regime corrective colony and after serving the sentence, they will be immediately expelled from the country.
The trial was chaired by a judge of the Baku Court on Grave Crimes Eldar Ismayilov.
Earlier during the trial, the prosecutor asked the court to exclude Articles 214.2.1, 214.2.3 from the indictment (terrorism committed by a group of people upon the preliminary conspiracy, by an organized group or a criminal association (criminal organization) by using firearms and items which are used as weapons), 279.2 (attack on enterprises, institutions, organizations or on individuals as part of armed formations or groups not envisaged upon the law).
The prosecutor called for the defendants to be found guilty upon Articles 318.2 (illegal crossing of the Azerbaijani state border by a group of people upon prior conspiracy or by an organized group) and 228.3 (illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons, accessories, ammunition, explosives, explosive devices committed by an organized group) and sentence each of them to seven years of imprisonment in a general regime corrective colony and deport after the expiration of this period.
The preliminary investigation of the criminal case initiated by the Main Investigation Department of the Azerbaijani State Security Service against the members of the Armenian armed formations disarmed as a result of the anti-terrorist operation of the State Security Service on December 13, 2020, and who, having illegally and secretly infiltrated to the Azerbaijani territory, committed terrorist-subversive and other criminal actions against the servicemen and civilians of Azerbaijan after the announcement of a ceasefire agreed upon by a trilateral statement signed by Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia on November 10, 2020 [following the Second Karabakh War from late Sept. to early Nov.2020], has been completed.
The investigative bodies revealed that a group of Armenian citizens, illegally acquiring weapons, components for the weapons, ammunition, explosives and devices, created armed formations not envisaged by the law.
The members of these armed formations illegally crossed the state border of Azerbaijan on November 26-27, 2020 as an organized group, took up the combat positions in the forest and other areas in the northwestern part of the Hadrut settlement of Khojavend district.
Those individuals attacked enterprises, institutions and organizations, as well as individuals, organized explosions, fires and carried out other terrorist actions that pose a threat to the life and health of people until December 13, 2020, which may cause big damage to the property or lead to other socially dangerous consequences to violating public safety, sow panic among the population or influence the decision-making by the state authorities of Azerbaijan or international organizations.
Thus, the investigation has been completed under Articles 214.2.1, 214.2.3 (terrorism committed by a group of people upon prior conspiracy by an organized group or criminal association (criminal organization) by using firearms and items used as weapons), 228.3 (illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons, components for weapons, ammunition, explosives and explosive devices by an organized group), 279.2 (an attack on enterprises, institutions, organizations or individuals as part of armed formations or groups not envisaged by the law) and 318.2 (illegal crossing of the state border of Azerbaijan by a group of people upon prior conspiracy or by an organized group) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The criminal case together with the indictment approved by the deputy prosecutor general of Azerbaijan was sent for consideration to the court.
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