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Baku/28.07.21/Turan: On Wednesday, the trial of Armenian citizens Davtyan David and Gevorg Sujyan, accused of espionage, continued at the Baku Court for Serious Crimes.
The testimony of witnesses was heard, and then both defendants made statements who repented of what they had done and asked for forgiveness.
The end of the judicial investigation was announced at the meeting.
In his speech, the prosecutor asked the court to find the accused guilty and sentence them to 16 years of imprisonment.
The court recessed for deliberation and then read out the verdict: both defendants were sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment.
It should be added that Davtyan and Sujyan were charged under Articles 228 (illegal possession of weapons), 276 (espionage), 279 (creation of illegal armed formations ) and 318 (illegal crossing of the state border) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan.
Both of them were detained on November 11, 2020 in the Lachin corridor when trying to move from Armenia to Karabakh-02D-
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