Protestors marched from Republic Square to the doors of the Supreme Court today in Yerevan against the arrest and conviction of the soldiers Razmik Sargsyan, Araik Zalyan and Musa Serobyan. These three soldiers have been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for the murder of two fellow soldiers Hovsep Mktrumyan and Roman Yeghiazaryan in Nagorno Karabakh back in January 2004.

The protest action was organized by the Helsinki Committee of Armenia Vanadzor Office and involved many different people such as mothers, brothers and husbands of the soldiers as well as human rights activists, lawyers and others. Sargsyan, Zalyan and Serobyan have been convicted but according to the testimonies of their families and lawyers, they are innocent.

Once they reached the doors of the Supreme Court, the Armenian police slammed the doors shut in front of the mothers of the soldiers. Mothers of Sargsyan, Zalyan and Serobyan were calling upon the Prosecutor’s office to reopen the investigation and seek the truth of the murders of Mktrumyan and Yeghiazaryan. Eventually officials from the Prosecutor’s office came out and allowed for Mrs. Sargsyan and their lawyer to go inside.