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From: Ina Iankulova (iiankulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 13:33:14 EDT
ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT PASSES NEW CRIMINAL CODE
Deputies approved a new Criminal Code on 18 April in all three readings, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reported. The vote in the third reading was 71 in favor with one abstention, according to Noyan Tapan. One week earlier, deputies had rejected the bill, which abolishes capital punishment in peace time but contains a special provision allowing for the death sentence to be handed down to the five men currently on trial for the killing of eight senior officials in the parliament chamber in October 1999 (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 14 April 2003). That trial was scheduled to resume on 18 April after a lengthy hiatus caused by the illness of presiding judge Samvel Uzunian, but was again adjourned due to the illness of one of the defendants, Noyan Tapan reported. LF
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