Two young people -Rafael Avakian and David Barsegian - have been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for espionage in favor of Azerbaijan, reported Armenian service of Radio Liberty.
22-year-old military Rafael Avakian and student David Barsegian were sentenced to 11 and 10 years of imprisonment, respectively.
According to the indictment, about a year ago Avakian and Barsegian met with Samvel Azatian, Istanbul resident, in Classmates social network. Azatian has introduced himself as a member of a charitable organization and asked Avakian to provide him information about number of people died and injured during emergency situations, medical service and food in the army, condition of the facilities and etc.
For the information Avakian was presented with watch, wallet and other gifts as well as $1000. Of this sum Avakian bought mobile phone for $800 at Azakian's advice and gave $200 to his friend Barsegian for photos of Syrian Armenians.
The accused did not plead guilty and said that they did not understand the real situation. Avakian's and Barsegian's lawyer Arkadii Israelian said the sentence is unfair. He said his clients thought that they communicated with the member of the charitable organization and the court could not identify their virtual friend.
The Armenian security agencies said that representative of the Azerbaijani intelligence communicated with them under name "Samvel Azatian."
Military of the Armenian army has been earlier arrested on the same charge, the trial continues.-0-
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