The Court of Cassation, presided over by Judge Hamlet Asatryan, shortly ago published a decision by which it overturned the verdict rendered in 2010 regarding Pashinyan: “To satisfy the cassation appeal, to review the decision of the Court of Cassation of 30 April 2010 on the basis of new circumstances. To overturn the verdict of the court of first instance of 10 January 2010 regarding Nikol Vova’s Pashinyan under Article 225, Part 1, and the decision of the Criminal Court of Appeal of 9 March 2010, to find Nikol Pashinyan innocent under Article 225, Part 1, and to acquit him”:
Let us recall — after the bloody events of 2008, Pashinyan was sentenced in 2010 to 7 years of imprisonment for organising mass disorder:
The Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia had submitted a cassation appeal, taking as a basis the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights, proceeding from the fact that the ECtHR had rendered a ruling months earlier in which it had recorded that during the bloody post-election events of 2008, Pashinyan’s rights to liberty and personal security, as well as to peaceful assembly, had been violated:
