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Aug 13 2011
Four Armenian students arrested in Georgia
August 13, 2011 | 15:08
TBILISI. - Four students of Armenian State Agricultural University are
in temporary detention facility in Batumi, in the near future they
will be indicted.
On Saturday Armenian News-NEWS.am received a call from Ruben Poghosyan
uncle of one of the arrested students, Gagik Poghosyan, who reported
some details about the reasons of detention.
According to him, his nephew and his three friends, Hovsep Seymaryan,
Tigran Serobyan and Harutyun (surname was not mentioned) were
vacationing in the Georgian resort of Kobuleti with their parents. On
August 10 they decided to go to Batumi by car.
"On the road to Batumi, a few cars began to file some signals and then
approached. People from inside these vehicles began to insult the
guys, saying to return to their country and rest there. Aggressors
then blocked the car with Armenian numbers. The priest of Batumi was
in one of the cars. His brother punched the driver of the Armenian
car, who, of course, responded. Then, 30-40 seconds after the
incident, police arrested the children and brought to the detention
facility of Batumi," said the source, adding that all four have
undergone medical examinations - no traces of alcohol and drug were
found.
Poghosyan said that parents of students turned to the consul of
Armenia in Batumi, the Armenian Embassy in Georgia but received no
respond.
`Instead, this Georgian priest went to the police and said that four
students beat them - about 15 people altogether.
The parents do not know what to do. On the third day of their
detention police appeal to the Court to keep the young people in
custody," said Ruben Poghosyan.
Aug 13 2011
Four Armenian students arrested in Georgia
August 13, 2011 | 15:08
TBILISI. - Four students of Armenian State Agricultural University are
in temporary detention facility in Batumi, in the near future they
will be indicted.
On Saturday Armenian News-NEWS.am received a call from Ruben Poghosyan
uncle of one of the arrested students, Gagik Poghosyan, who reported
some details about the reasons of detention.
According to him, his nephew and his three friends, Hovsep Seymaryan,
Tigran Serobyan and Harutyun (surname was not mentioned) were
vacationing in the Georgian resort of Kobuleti with their parents. On
August 10 they decided to go to Batumi by car.
"On the road to Batumi, a few cars began to file some signals and then
approached. People from inside these vehicles began to insult the
guys, saying to return to their country and rest there. Aggressors
then blocked the car with Armenian numbers. The priest of Batumi was
in one of the cars. His brother punched the driver of the Armenian
car, who, of course, responded. Then, 30-40 seconds after the
incident, police arrested the children and brought to the detention
facility of Batumi," said the source, adding that all four have
undergone medical examinations - no traces of alcohol and drug were
found.
Poghosyan said that parents of students turned to the consul of
Armenia in Batumi, the Armenian Embassy in Georgia but received no
respond.
`Instead, this Georgian priest went to the police and said that four
students beat them - about 15 people altogether.
The parents do not know what to do. On the third day of their
detention police appeal to the Court to keep the young people in
custody," said Ruben Poghosyan.