ArmInfo. An Armenian journalist, a former member of the Dashnaktsutyun ARFD, Nairi Hunanyan, who is serving a life sentence in a case of execution in the Armenian parliament on October 27, 1999, was denied parole.
As the press secretary of the Ministry of Justice of Armenia Lusine Martirosyan said, the probation service gave a negative opinion on the application of Nairi Hunanyan for parole, and the case will not be sent to court. According to her, this decision was made taking into account the fact that the Criminal Executive Service, the administration of the penitentiary institution, in which Hunanyan is serving a life term, previously gave a negative opinion. She also informed that the decision could be appealed within 10 days. Earlier it became known that Hunanyan filed a petition for parole, for which he had the right to communicate with the expiration of 20 years of serving the sentence.
On October 27, 1999, a group of terrorists burst into parliament and shot and killed the Prime Minister of Armenia Vazgen Sargsyan, the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, Karen Demirchyan, the Vice-Speakers of Yuri Bakhshyan and Ruben Miroyan, the Minister of Operational Affairs Leonard Petrosyan and the deputies Armenak Armenakyan, Mikael Kotanian. The terrorist group included former journalist Nairi Hunanyan, who worked for some time on television in Armenia, his brother Karen Hunanyan, their uncle Vram Galstyan, as well as Derenik Bejanyan and Ashot Knyazyan. Their trial began on February 15, 2001. On December 2, 2003, the Center-Nork-Marash trial court sentenced the Nairi and Karen Unanyan brothers, Edik Grigoryan, Vram Galstyan (in 2004, according to the official version, committed suicide), Derenik Bejanyan and Ashot Knyazyan to life conclusion. Hamlet Stepanyan was sentenced to 14 years in prison (in May 2010, his body was found in his bed at the Nubarashen detention center). All seven were found guilty of treason and terrorism.