Life-termer sues Kentron TV Company
Life-term prisoner Mher Yenokyan has sued Kentron TV Company for providing biased coverage of his criminal cases.
According to Kentron TV Company, Mher Yenokyan has been sentenced to imprisonment for killing two and more persons and participating in bandit attacks. The information does not correspond to reality," Advocate Vahagn Manukyan said today in the Court of General Jurisdiction of Ajapnyak and Davtashen Administrative Districts.
Manukyan says his client was convicted for brutal killing in 1996.
Judge David Balayan informed that advocate that on November 28 the TV Company broadcasted a refutation and petitioned to discontinue the case.
Mher Yenokyan, a third year student of dental department of the Medical University, was imprisoned at the age of 20. He was sentenced to death for killing his friend. in 2003 when death penalty was abolished, his sentence was changed to life imprisonment.
Mher Enokyan has not accepted his guilt to date.
Mher's relatives have appealed to various instances demanding to review the verdict but to no avail.
The life-termer has planned two escapes from the prison. First time he escaped from Goris prison, in December 2004, the second time he escaped in December 2009. Both times, he was caught in the center of the city.
Mher says he planned the escapes to call public attention to his case.
