ARMENIAN CITIZENS CAN BE SENTENCED TO 1-YEAR IMPRISONMENT FOR INSULTING PUBLIC AGENT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian deputies voted for the insertion into the Criminal Code of Armenia a number of articles calling for administrative punishment for insulting of a public agent. As minister of Justice David Harutyunian, who has submitted the project, stated, a penalty will be fixed for a person outraging a public agent while for the second offense the citizen can be sentenced to 1-year imprisonment. Besides, the item, according to which the cases of people sentenced to life imprisonment can be reconsidered only after 20 years of imprisonment, has been excluded from the RA Criminal Code. The given amendment, in the minister's words, is connected with the resolution by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, which says that despite the kind and term of punishment, the prisoners should be given a chance to submit the application for retrial.