D.H., a Client of the “LSA” Law Firm, Was Granted Early Conditional Release

Today, D.H., a client of the “LSA” Law Firm (lawyer Edgar Ayvazyan) who had been convicted of murder, was granted early conditional release and freed from the courtroom.

In the criminal case No. ED1/1267/01/24, examined in the First Instance Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan, our office’s attorney, Edgar Ayvazyan, represented the defendant N.H., who had been charged under Article 452, Part 4, Clause 2 of the Criminal Code of Armenia for committing a serious crime—namely, using violence against a police officer in order to interfere with their official duties.

On December 17, 2024, the Criminal Court of General Jurisdiction of the First Instance of Yerevan, having considered the investigator’s motion to reaffirm the detention imposed on A. Gh., the client of our office’s attorneys, Arsen Sardaryan and Edgar Ayvazyan, who is accused of serious and particularly serious crimes, rejected the motion and applied an alternative preventive measure, including house arrest.

As we previously reported, between June and November 2024, four foreign nationals involved in the same criminal proceedings approached our office at different times. The detention imposed on all of them as a preventive measure was replaced with an alternative measure within days of our lawyers taking over their defense. (https://www.lsa.am/a-series-of-victories-for-lsa-detention-of-4-defendants-replaced-by-alternative-preventive-measures/)

In December 2024, our office was approached by the defendant Sh.S., seeking legal representation in a criminal case being investigated by the Anti-Corruption Committee of the Republic of Armenia. Before contacting our office, Sh.S. had been charged with a serious crime under Article 435, Part 2, Clauses 1 and 3 of the Criminal Code of […]