Famous armenian murderers released from imprisonment
This is a list of Famous armenian murderers released from imprisonment.
* Varoujan Garabedian, former member of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA). After the July 15, 1983 bombing of a Turkish Airlines check-in desk at Orly airport, Paris, Garabedian surrendered to French police, confessed to planting the bomb and was arrested for taking part in the Orly airport attack The attack killed 8 people. During the trial in Créteil, France, Garabedian, where he was defended by Jacques Vergès (the victims of attack being defended by Gide Loyrette Nouel) denied his earlier confession of having planted the bomb, but was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment on March 3, 1985. In the late 1990s tens of thousands of petitions from around the world, appeals by Armenian government and civic leaders including former and current presidents of Armenia were sent to the French authorities to pardon Varoujan Garabedian and Armenia offered assylum to Garabedian upon his release from prison. After spending 17 years in jail, he was released on April 23, 2001 on the condition that he be deported to Armenia although he was not even the citizen of Armenia. The mayor of Yerevan, Robert Nazaryan, had pledged to provide him with employment and accommodation, and in Yerevan Garabedian had a meeting with Prime Minister Andranik Markarian, who expressed happiness at his release. Yanikian was sentenced to life in prison on July 2, 1973. Despite objections from the Turkish government, Yanikian was paroled on January 31, 1984
* , commonly known as "Dr. Death", was an American pathologist, euthanasia activist, painter, author, composer and instrumentalist. He is best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he claimed to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He famously said, "dying is not a crime". Beginning in 1999, Kevorkian served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence for . He was released on parole on June 1, 2007, on condition he would not offer suicide advice to any other person.
* Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated the former Grand Vizir Talaat Pasha in the Charlottenburg District of Berlin, Germany in broad daylight and in the presence of many witnesses on March 15, 1921 as an act of vengeance for Talaat's role in orchestrating the Armenian Genocide. This assassination was a part of the Dashnak Party's Operation Nemesis. He wasn't even sentenced and released from court as he did this crime in affect situation. Tehlirian was tried for murder, but was eventually acquitted by the German court. The trial of Tehlirian was a rather sensationalized event at the time, with Tehlirian being defended by three defense attorneys, including Dr. Theodor Niemeyer, professor of Law at Kiel University. The trial examined not only Tehlirian’s actions but also Tehlirian's conviction that Talaat Pasha was the main author of the Armenian deportation and mass killings. The defense attorneys made no attempt to deny the fact that Tehlirian had killed a man, and instead focused on the influence of the Armenian killings on Tehlirian's mental state. It took the jury slightly over an hour to render a verdict of "not guilty" on grounds of temporary insanity.
* Misak Torlakian, one of the murderers in "Operation Nemesis". He assassinated Behbud Khan Javanshir, Internal Affairs Minister of Azerbaijan. Torlakian was admitted "guilty but not responsible" due to his mental condition by the British military tribunal in November 1921. The trial of Misak Torlakian is the twin of the trial of Soghomon Tehlirian. Both trials involved the murder of a tyrant, and both of the perpetrators were found not guilty. During both trials, history, theology, philosophy, physiology, psychology, and politics were invoked by both sides to sway the Military Judge in the case ot Torlakian, and the Jury of Peers in the case of Tehlirian. Thus in addition to being landmark legal cases, these two trials reveal the prevailing mindsets and political strategies of Germans, Turks, Armenians and Azerbaijanis in the aftermath of World War I.
* Varoujan Garabedian, former member of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA). After the July 15, 1983 bombing of a Turkish Airlines check-in desk at Orly airport, Paris, Garabedian surrendered to French police, confessed to planting the bomb and was arrested for taking part in the Orly airport attack The attack killed 8 people. During the trial in Créteil, France, Garabedian, where he was defended by Jacques Vergès (the victims of attack being defended by Gide Loyrette Nouel) denied his earlier confession of having planted the bomb, but was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment on March 3, 1985. In the late 1990s tens of thousands of petitions from around the world, appeals by Armenian government and civic leaders including former and current presidents of Armenia were sent to the French authorities to pardon Varoujan Garabedian and Armenia offered assylum to Garabedian upon his release from prison. After spending 17 years in jail, he was released on April 23, 2001 on the condition that he be deported to Armenia although he was not even the citizen of Armenia. The mayor of Yerevan, Robert Nazaryan, had pledged to provide him with employment and accommodation, and in Yerevan Garabedian had a meeting with Prime Minister Andranik Markarian, who expressed happiness at his release. Yanikian was sentenced to life in prison on July 2, 1973. Despite objections from the Turkish government, Yanikian was paroled on January 31, 1984
* , commonly known as "Dr. Death", was an American pathologist, euthanasia activist, painter, author, composer and instrumentalist. He is best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he claimed to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He famously said, "dying is not a crime". Beginning in 1999, Kevorkian served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence for . He was released on parole on June 1, 2007, on condition he would not offer suicide advice to any other person.
* Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated the former Grand Vizir Talaat Pasha in the Charlottenburg District of Berlin, Germany in broad daylight and in the presence of many witnesses on March 15, 1921 as an act of vengeance for Talaat's role in orchestrating the Armenian Genocide. This assassination was a part of the Dashnak Party's Operation Nemesis. He wasn't even sentenced and released from court as he did this crime in affect situation. Tehlirian was tried for murder, but was eventually acquitted by the German court. The trial of Tehlirian was a rather sensationalized event at the time, with Tehlirian being defended by three defense attorneys, including Dr. Theodor Niemeyer, professor of Law at Kiel University. The trial examined not only Tehlirian’s actions but also Tehlirian's conviction that Talaat Pasha was the main author of the Armenian deportation and mass killings. The defense attorneys made no attempt to deny the fact that Tehlirian had killed a man, and instead focused on the influence of the Armenian killings on Tehlirian's mental state. It took the jury slightly over an hour to render a verdict of "not guilty" on grounds of temporary insanity.
* Misak Torlakian, one of the murderers in "Operation Nemesis". He assassinated Behbud Khan Javanshir, Internal Affairs Minister of Azerbaijan. Torlakian was admitted "guilty but not responsible" due to his mental condition by the British military tribunal in November 1921. The trial of Misak Torlakian is the twin of the trial of Soghomon Tehlirian. Both trials involved the murder of a tyrant, and both of the perpetrators were found not guilty. During both trials, history, theology, philosophy, physiology, psychology, and politics were invoked by both sides to sway the Military Judge in the case ot Torlakian, and the Jury of Peers in the case of Tehlirian. Thus in addition to being landmark legal cases, these two trials reveal the prevailing mindsets and political strategies of Germans, Turks, Armenians and Azerbaijanis in the aftermath of World War I.
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