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From: Eurasiaweek (thisweek@eurasianet.org)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 16:47:42 EDT
LAWYER ACCUSES JUDGE IN ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT SHOOTINGS TRIAL OF
OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE. Russian lawyer Oleg Yunyshev, who represents the
family of slain Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsian, told journalists in
Yerevan on 5 June that Samvel Uzunian, the judge presiding over the
trial of the five gunmen who shot Sargsian and seven other senior
officials in October 1999, is obstructing the course of justice,
RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported. Specifically, Yunyshev said Uzunian
has rejected the conclusion of Russian forensic experts that the
video footage of the murders may have been edited before being
broadcast, and that he has refused to publish a video made the day
after the shootings on which, Yunyshev claimed, presidential adviser
Aleksan Harutiunian implicated President Robert Kocharian and Defense
Minister Serzh Sarkisian in the killings. Yunyshev said he will
demand Uzunian's replacement if the latter continues to reject his
request to publicize those materials. LF
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