Yesterday the third hearing on Ruben Vardanyan’s case was held in Baku Military Court

The prosecutor began reading charges dating back to 1988. They obviously had nothing to do with Ruben Vardanian: at that time he was 19 years old and a full-time student at the Economics Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Ruben Vardanyan and his lawyer filed several motions, but all of them were rejected by the court.

So far, less than 5% of the thousands of pages of the indictment and evidence have been orally translated for Ruben Vardanyan, and his local lawyer has studied only 20% of the materials.

In addition, Ruben Vardanyan’s lawyer filed a motion to disqualify the court-appointed interpreter after serious inconsistencies were revealed: for example, the translated decision on the results of the preliminary hearing contained references to the legislation of Belarus, which has no relevance to the case.

The next hearings in the case of Ruben Vardanyan will be held on February 10 and 13.

More information: https://freevardanyan.com/ru/hronologiya/