Today, the trial of the "March 1st Seven" reopened with Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan reading a communiqué from the Vardashen detention facility stating that defendant Shant Harutyunyan hadn't been transferred to the court room due to health and psychological reasons. Regarding this news, defendant Souren Sirounyan told the court that he had been in the same holding cell as Mr. Harutyunyan and only observed that he had been suffering from medical and not psychological problems. Thus, Mr. Sirounyan motioned the court to prescribe in-patient hospital care for Mr. Harutyunyan. After a twenty minute break, the court released its decision on the motion which read, "The case of Shant Harutyunyan would be suspended until his medical condition improves and that the cases of the other six would continue separately." The court also decided to carry out a court appointed psychological examination of Mr. Harutyunyan in order for the group of specialists to present its conclusions to the court regarding the defendant’s medical and psychological condition. Defendants Sasoun Mikayelyan and Alexander Arzumanyan raised objections to the decision arguing that by doing so the judge had prematurely diagnosed Mr. Harutyunyan's problems as psychological, something that only specialists have the right to do. Judge Martirosyan found the two defendants guilty for disturbing the trial process and for not abiding by his instructions. Judge Martirosyan said that the next warning would result in the two being removed from the court room. Myasnik Malkhasyan stated that Shant Harutyunyan hadn't refused from participating in the session but rather had demanded that he be brought to the court. Mr. Malkhasyan went on to say that Harutyunyan had been transferred fro the detention facility to the court but that he wasn't allowed into the court room to participate. Liparit Simonyan, Mr. Arzumanyan's attorney, declared that the court had no right to suspend Harutyunyan's criminal portion of the trial since there was yet no conclusion reached by the specialists as to his health. Stepan Voskanyan, Grigor Voskerchyan's lawyer, filed a motion that the Judge Martirosyan recuse himself on the grounds that, "the court is not impartial, that the court hadn't recorded the acts of violence committed against his client and that furthermore, the court had perverted the truth by claiming that Voskerchyan hadn't shown up due to health reasons." The motion was challenged by chief prosecutor Koryun Piloyan arguing that the court wasn't authorized to evaluate the violence committed against Voskerchyan. Prosecutor Piloyan called the motions for self recusal presented by the defense to be merely a delaying tactic. Judge Martirosyan declared a thirty minute recess to study the motion.