Armenia's ex Deputy Prosecutor General Gagik Jhangiryan, charged with violence against a government representative, today read out a 50-page speech giving a legal-political analysis of the country's political scene after September 21, 2007. Jhangiryan named it a speech for the prosecution.
Jhangiryan's speech, especially the legal analysis, can be viewed as a teaching and methodological manual for ordinary law-enforcers and top officials who, as Gagik Jhangiryan says, lack ignorance and feel thirst for legal knowledge. In particular, he meant deputy chief of RoA Police Alexander Afyan who "had conducted an unwarranted search" on March 1.
Judge Jora Vardanyan and Prosecutor Hovsep Sargsyan were obliged to hear Jhangiryan's sharp criticism addressed to Armenia's law-enforcers for two hours. In his speech, Gagik Jhangiryan proved that the power had been usurped not by the authorities but by "the regime suiting people like him."
"Today Armenia encounters a crisis of justice and equity. People take their voice to the street in search of justice and fairness. All other crises stem from the lack of justice," concluded Jhangiryan.
The ex Deputy Prosecutor General warned the judges and prosecutors against retribution. "Do not forget that you will be boomeranged against for their misdeeds," he said.
"I don't beg your mercy. I seek justice and acquittal otherwise do not long for forgiveness. God be your judge."
Jhangiryan's speech was welcomed with loud applause.
The Court is to return a verdict on March 23.
