The last court pro9ceeding of the case of 7 took place yesterday at Shengavit community court of general jurisdiction. The court failed to raise the accusations and stop the criminal proceedings and the judge said that the criminal cases of the seven political prisoners would be separated and handled separately. Only the cases of Alexander Arzumanyan and Suren Surenyan will be handled together. After the recent amendment of the articles 225 and 300 of the criminal code the special investigation service decided to cancel the accusation and change it in a manner to make it consistent with the new law. Koryun Piloyan, the prosecutor, drafted a new accusation and the accusation for power usurpation under the article 300 has been excluded from it. Now the seven political prisoners are accused under the first provision of article 225 in organizing public disorders. M. Martirosyan also decided to send the case of Sasun Mikayelyan to the court of general jurisdiction of Kotayk region. The cases of the prisoners will be handled at the same court of general jurisdiction of Nork-Marash community. Definitely by separating the cases of the political prisoners the authorities are trying to disperse the public attention from the case. It may have an effect of boomerang and may result in more demonstrations to protect the political prisoners.
