Hovhannes Azoyan met with the political prisoner Tigran Arakelyan

Credible sources of Lurer.com report that one of these days the actor and TV host Hovhannes Azoyan visited the political prisoner of Armenian National Congress (ANC), Tigran Arakelyan in "Nubarashen" penitentiary.

Lurer.com interviewed Hovhannes Azoyan who neither denied nor confirmed this information.

We also tried to contact with the political prisoner Tigran Arakelyan, but that was not possible.

Note, that on August 9, 2011 there was an incident between 7 ANC opposition activists and the police, after which activists were brought to a police station and detained. Three of them were charged, and in their attitude as a preventive measure was a detention for a period of 2 months. On August Tigran Arakelyan was charged under Part 3 st.258 of RA Criminal Code ("hooliganism").

The prosecutor requested to sentence Tigran Arakelyan to imprisonment for a term of six years. Also, the prosecution asked Artak Karapetyan to sentence to 3.5 years in prison, and David Kiramidzhyan and Sargis Gevorgyan to two years in prison. In the case of David Kiramidzhyan prosecutor suggested to apply the conditional sentence.

On July 20, 2012 the court of general jurisdiction of Yerevan's Kentron and Nork-Marash, the judge Gagik Poghosyan announced the verdict in the case of ANC activists. According to the verdict, Tigran Arakelyan was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 6 years, and Sargis Gevorgyan and David Kiramidzhyan - two years in prison.

On December 13, the Court of Cassation presented a statement on the case sentenced to 2.5 years in prison the activists of ANC Tigran Arakelyan, Sargis Gevorgyan, Artak Karapetyan and David Kiramidzhyan.

If by 27 January the Court of Cassation did not include in its production the case, the January 28 verdict of the trial court will enter into force and Gevorgyan, Karapetyan and Kiramidzhyan would be arrested.