ARMENIA: JOURNALIST SENTENCED FOR ESPIONAGE.(Murad Bojolian)(Brief Article)

From: IPR Strategic Business Information Database | Date: December 29, 2002 | Copyright information

A Yerevan court on 16 December sentenced Turkologist and former Foreign Ministry official Murad Bojolian to 10 years in prison on charges of spying for Turkey, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported. Bojolian, who since 1998 worked as a correspondent for a Turkish news agency, confessed to the charges immediately after his arrest in January but retracted the confession in July, saying it was made under fear of torture and for the fate of his family. According to Interfax, Bojolian was fo...

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