BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 9. The courtroom
proceedings within the felony case towards Armenian citizen Ruben
Vardanyan, charged below a number of articles of the Criminal Code of
the Republic of Azerbaijan referring to crimes towards peace and
humanity, conflict crimes, terrorism, financing of terrorism, and different
grave offenses, continued on December 9, Trend reviews.
The open courtroom session on the Baku Military Court, chaired by
Judge Zeynal Aghayev and composed of judges Anar Rzayev and Jamal
Ramazanov (reserve choose: Gunel Samadova), supplied the accused
with a Russian-language interpreter and a state-appointed protection
lawyer.
Presiding Judge Zeynal Aghayev launched the panel of judges,
the prosecutors representing the state accusation, the
interpreters, and different individuals to the victims and their authorized
successors, who had been collaborating within the proceedings for the primary
time. He additionally defined their rights and obligations below the
regulation.
Subsequently, the courtroom heard statements from the victims.
The subsequent courtroom listening to has been scheduled for December 12.
Ruben Vardanyan faces a number of expenses below the Criminal Code
of the Republic of Azerbaijan, together with Articles 100.1, 100.2
(planning, getting ready, initiating, and waging a conflict of aggression),
107 (deportation and compelled displacement of the inhabitants), 109
(persecution), 110 (forcible disappearance of individuals), 112
(deprivation of liberty opposite to worldwide regulation), 113
(torture), 114.1 (mercenary exercise), 115.2 (violation of the legal guidelines
and customs of warfare), 116.0.1, 116.0.2, 116.0.10, 116.0.11,
116.0.16, 116.0.18 (violation of worldwide humanitarian regulation
norms throughout an armed battle), 120.2.1, 120.2.3, 120.2.4,
120.2.7, 120.2.11, 120.2.12 (intentional homicide), 29.120.2.1,
29.120.2.3, 29.120.2.4, 29.120.2.7, 29.120.2.11, 29.120.2.12
(tried intentional homicide), 192.3.1 (unlawful entrepreneurship),
214.2.1, 214.2.3, 214.2.4 (terrorism), 214-1 (financing of
terrorism), 218.1, 218.2 (creation of a felony group), 228.3
(unlawful acquisition, switch, sale, storage, transportation, and
possession of firearms, ammunition, explosives, and units),
270-1.2, 270-1.4 (acts threatening aviation security), 278.1
(forcible seizure or retention of energy, forcible change of the
constitutional construction of the state), 279.1, 279.2, 279.3
(creation of armed formations not supplied for by regulation), and 318.2
(unlawful crossing of the state border of the Republic of
Azerbaijan).
The preliminary investigation of the felony case towards Ruben
Vardanyan, accused below articles regarding crimes towards peace
and humanity, conflict crimes, terrorism, financing of terrorism, and
different offenses, was carried out by the State Security Service of the
Republic of Azerbaijan.
