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TEMPORARY "INVESTIGATION" IN PROCESS
Lilit Poghosyan
Hayots Ashkhar Daily
Published on July 09, 2008
Armenia
NA Temporary Committee, investigating March 1 events, convened its
regular working session, headed by the Secretary of RA Faction Samvel
Nikoyan to "sum up" the information obtained and to plan their future
activity.
The committee came to a decision to appeal to the former Presidential
candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan to "help" the committee reveal the event
that took place in the Theatrical Square in the morning of March 1.
And despite the latter's disregard they have exhorted him to represent
his attitude towards certain issues.
For example was the organizer of the "pan-national" movement informed
that the massive events that took place for around 10 days were
illegal? Or was he informed that the participants of the meeting were
armed and how many people were in the square when the law enforcers
came there.
Who was the initiator of the clash between the "peaceful demonstrators"
and the law enforcers, etc?
To make the "chain" clear the committee came to a decision to appeal
to the law enforcers to get the explanations of the police regarding
these issues, to clarify what type of arms have they used, how many
policemen participated in the process of "dispersing" the demonstration
and many other issues linked with the clash between the police and
the activists, regarding which there is lots of misinformation.
The working groups have already managed to visit the detainees to
listen to the allegedly "artificially detained".
Secretary of ARFD faction Artashes Shahbazyan said together with
vice-chair of the National Union, Sargis Muradkhanyan and independent
expert Sargis Hakobyan they have visited "Nubarashen" penitentiary
and met with Armen Sargsyan charged for his participation in the
mass disorder.
"The leadership of the isolation cell didn't hinder the meeting.
They gave us an opportunity to have half an hour meeting with the
detainee, to listen to his remarks. He said he participated in the
demonstration out of interest. At first he joint the participants
near the Municipality later the crowd in front of the fish market. His
foot was accidentally injured.
But he didn't have any idea how it happened. After which he went to
"Erebuny" medical center, but they refused to help him, later he
appealed to another hospital, but on his way the police took him
and forcibly brought to the police. Sarsgyan didn't have complaints
against the employees of the isolation cell."
Taking into account what has been said the committee came to a decision
not to make haste, to familiarize themselves with the details of the
criminal case and to listen to the decision of the court and only after
that to come to a conclusion whether or not the testimony is grounded.
Leader of the United Labor Party Gurgen Arsenyan was the next reporter,
who together with MP Naira Zohrabyan and former Presidential Candidate
Aram Harutyunyan visited "Kentron" penitentiary and met with the
former employees of the National Security, Tigran Melkonyan and
Levon Khachatryan.
The latter have been detained for revealing state secret and handing
two of the National Security employees over to the participants of
the demonstration. Based on the testimony of the detainees Gurgen
Arsenyan in essence gave assessments to the court procedure.
He said there are certain strange points in the case, that give
ground to disbelief towards the decision of the court. Particularly he
considered it strange that the court has been based on the testimony
of the "aggrieved" (the revealed National Security employees) and
one policeman, with no testimony given by the civilians.
Arsenyan said other members of the Committee also agreed that the
"proof base" is not satisfactory. Anyhow in this case as well the
committee decided not to make haste and to wait for the end of the
case investigation in the Court of Appeals.
The committee noticed that Human Rights Defender Armen Harutyunyan
was not present in the working session. Hermine Naghdalyan said the
reason was "technical".
But because he came out with an announcement asking to provide the
security of his family members, the committee considered it necessary
to ask the defender what was the reason of appearing with similar
announcement and whether or not it was linked with his announcement
regarding March 1 developments.
Lilit Poghosyan
Hayots Ashkhar Daily
Published on July 09, 2008
Armenia
NA Temporary Committee, investigating March 1 events, convened its
regular working session, headed by the Secretary of RA Faction Samvel
Nikoyan to "sum up" the information obtained and to plan their future
activity.
The committee came to a decision to appeal to the former Presidential
candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan to "help" the committee reveal the event
that took place in the Theatrical Square in the morning of March 1.
And despite the latter's disregard they have exhorted him to represent
his attitude towards certain issues.
For example was the organizer of the "pan-national" movement informed
that the massive events that took place for around 10 days were
illegal? Or was he informed that the participants of the meeting were
armed and how many people were in the square when the law enforcers
came there.
Who was the initiator of the clash between the "peaceful demonstrators"
and the law enforcers, etc?
To make the "chain" clear the committee came to a decision to appeal
to the law enforcers to get the explanations of the police regarding
these issues, to clarify what type of arms have they used, how many
policemen participated in the process of "dispersing" the demonstration
and many other issues linked with the clash between the police and
the activists, regarding which there is lots of misinformation.
The working groups have already managed to visit the detainees to
listen to the allegedly "artificially detained".
Secretary of ARFD faction Artashes Shahbazyan said together with
vice-chair of the National Union, Sargis Muradkhanyan and independent
expert Sargis Hakobyan they have visited "Nubarashen" penitentiary
and met with Armen Sargsyan charged for his participation in the
mass disorder.
"The leadership of the isolation cell didn't hinder the meeting.
They gave us an opportunity to have half an hour meeting with the
detainee, to listen to his remarks. He said he participated in the
demonstration out of interest. At first he joint the participants
near the Municipality later the crowd in front of the fish market. His
foot was accidentally injured.
But he didn't have any idea how it happened. After which he went to
"Erebuny" medical center, but they refused to help him, later he
appealed to another hospital, but on his way the police took him
and forcibly brought to the police. Sarsgyan didn't have complaints
against the employees of the isolation cell."
Taking into account what has been said the committee came to a decision
not to make haste, to familiarize themselves with the details of the
criminal case and to listen to the decision of the court and only after
that to come to a conclusion whether or not the testimony is grounded.
Leader of the United Labor Party Gurgen Arsenyan was the next reporter,
who together with MP Naira Zohrabyan and former Presidential Candidate
Aram Harutyunyan visited "Kentron" penitentiary and met with the
former employees of the National Security, Tigran Melkonyan and
Levon Khachatryan.
The latter have been detained for revealing state secret and handing
two of the National Security employees over to the participants of
the demonstration. Based on the testimony of the detainees Gurgen
Arsenyan in essence gave assessments to the court procedure.
He said there are certain strange points in the case, that give
ground to disbelief towards the decision of the court. Particularly he
considered it strange that the court has been based on the testimony
of the "aggrieved" (the revealed National Security employees) and
one policeman, with no testimony given by the civilians.
Arsenyan said other members of the Committee also agreed that the
"proof base" is not satisfactory. Anyhow in this case as well the
committee decided not to make haste and to wait for the end of the
case investigation in the Court of Appeals.
The committee noticed that Human Rights Defender Armen Harutyunyan
was not present in the working session. Hermine Naghdalyan said the
reason was "technical".
But because he came out with an announcement asking to provide the
security of his family members, the committee considered it necessary
to ask the defender what was the reason of appearing with similar
announcement and whether or not it was linked with his announcement
regarding March 1 developments.