Armenian court convicts political analyst`s attacker
An Armenian court has convicted an individual
charged with making an attempt on the life of a well-known local
political analyst, the Regnum news agency reported.
The country`s Northern Criminal Court sentenced Arshak Aghababayan, nicknamed Turk Arshak, to 12 years in jail for executing an attempt to kill Levon Melik-Shahnazarian.
According to the indictment, Turk Arshak and German Konjorian attempted to kill the Armenian analyst on orders from an Azerbaijani named Akhan. Both men, who came to Armenia from neighboring Georgia, traveled to the village where Melik-Shahnazarian lived. After discovering his home on April 22, 2008, the suspects fired a gun at him from a three-meter range. The bullet hit the window frame and bounced astray without hitting him. Several days later, Turk Arshak made a phone call to Melik-Shahnazarian demanding that he stop his media statements and threatening to kill him and his family if the statements continued. The analyst, who tape recorded the telephone call, reported the call to law-enforcement agencies, resulting in Turk Arshak`s arrest on May 8.
According to the report, Aghababayan`s father died while he was still a child, and the boy was raised by an Azerbaijani woman who was a Georgian citizen. Therefore, he was given the "Turk" nickname.
The country`s Northern Criminal Court sentenced Arshak Aghababayan, nicknamed Turk Arshak, to 12 years in jail for executing an attempt to kill Levon Melik-Shahnazarian.
According to the indictment, Turk Arshak and German Konjorian attempted to kill the Armenian analyst on orders from an Azerbaijani named Akhan. Both men, who came to Armenia from neighboring Georgia, traveled to the village where Melik-Shahnazarian lived. After discovering his home on April 22, 2008, the suspects fired a gun at him from a three-meter range. The bullet hit the window frame and bounced astray without hitting him. Several days later, Turk Arshak made a phone call to Melik-Shahnazarian demanding that he stop his media statements and threatening to kill him and his family if the statements continued. The analyst, who tape recorded the telephone call, reported the call to law-enforcement agencies, resulting in Turk Arshak`s arrest on May 8.
According to the report, Aghababayan`s father died while he was still a child, and the boy was raised by an Azerbaijani woman who was a Georgian citizen. Therefore, he was given the "Turk" nickname.
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