A court in Yerevan sentenced journalist and opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan to seven years of imprisonment for organizing mass unrest in the wake of 2008 presidential elections, when former president Levon Ter-Petrosyan refused to acknowledge defeat. Protests by thousands of his supporters, headed by Pashinyan and others, turned violent, with ten people killed and some 200 wounded. The court found Pashinyan guilty of organizing “mass riots” but cleared him of assaulting a police officer in 2007. The opposition calls the conviction illegal and politically motivated.
http://lenta.ru/articles/2010/01/19/jail/
http://hyemedia.com/2010/01/19/armenian-opposition-leader-nikol-pashinyan-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison/
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