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Arthur Sakunts `Violence implementers are encouraged'
Sat, 04/06/2013 - 21:55
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`Violence, beatings, confinement for more than 3 hours, the use of
psychological pressure, failure to provide legal aid and non-assurance
of protection, forcing to false testimony has been common style of the
Police work' head of the Vanadzor office of Helsinki Civil Association
Arthur Saqunts mentioned and added that from 2011 they have received
33 application, but none of them was made into a criminal case.
`Police officers allow obvious illegalities, torture the citizens, and
later their head are moved to other departments and assume high
positions. It turns out that the performance of violence is encouraged
in our country'Sakunts mentioned and added that the quality of the
work of police is assessed by the number of revealed crimes, `and when
they are unable to assure planned results, according to their `black
list' the missing number is filled with the drug addicts and former
convicts.
According to Sakunts, Special Investigative Service is also involved
in inaction and does nothing and intentionally implements the
examination in the way that that the cases are not revealed but rather
forgotten.
`There should be independent internal mechanist of appeal, that is to
say the state should implement supervision upon the action of the
police officers, that institute should have such a developed mechanist
of examination, so that the rate of torture towards the citizens
decreases. Today when the citizens enter the court with complaint of
police torture, in that case the court also does not grant appropriate
attention'.
Majority of people who are subjected to violence are so much dependent
on their employment for supporting their life that under the fear of
its loose put up with this kind of inhuman treatment' head of Vanadzor
office of Helsinki Association mentioned and presents an example: the
son of the tortured citizen applied to them, but later denies and said
that there is no need to continue the case, and similar cases are
common.
Sakunts does not see any possibility of torture prevention by the
police officers, besides that, the issue of the tortured citizens
should be raised regularly.
Author:
Eleanora Araqelyan
From: Baghdasarian
Sat, 04/06/2013 - 21:55
Trending topic
`Violence, beatings, confinement for more than 3 hours, the use of
psychological pressure, failure to provide legal aid and non-assurance
of protection, forcing to false testimony has been common style of the
Police work' head of the Vanadzor office of Helsinki Civil Association
Arthur Saqunts mentioned and added that from 2011 they have received
33 application, but none of them was made into a criminal case.
`Police officers allow obvious illegalities, torture the citizens, and
later their head are moved to other departments and assume high
positions. It turns out that the performance of violence is encouraged
in our country'Sakunts mentioned and added that the quality of the
work of police is assessed by the number of revealed crimes, `and when
they are unable to assure planned results, according to their `black
list' the missing number is filled with the drug addicts and former
convicts.
According to Sakunts, Special Investigative Service is also involved
in inaction and does nothing and intentionally implements the
examination in the way that that the cases are not revealed but rather
forgotten.
`There should be independent internal mechanist of appeal, that is to
say the state should implement supervision upon the action of the
police officers, that institute should have such a developed mechanist
of examination, so that the rate of torture towards the citizens
decreases. Today when the citizens enter the court with complaint of
police torture, in that case the court also does not grant appropriate
attention'.
Majority of people who are subjected to violence are so much dependent
on their employment for supporting their life that under the fear of
its loose put up with this kind of inhuman treatment' head of Vanadzor
office of Helsinki Association mentioned and presents an example: the
son of the tortured citizen applied to them, but later denies and said
that there is no need to continue the case, and similar cases are
common.
Sakunts does not see any possibility of torture prevention by the
police officers, besides that, the issue of the tortured citizens
should be raised regularly.
Author:
Eleanora Araqelyan
From: Baghdasarian