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    HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP CALLS ON POLICE CHIEF TO DISCIPLINE BAD COPS OR RESIGN

    http://hetq.am/eng/news/28944/human-rights-group-calls-on-police-chief-to-discipline-bad-cops-or-resign.html
    12:26, August 28, 2013

    Levon Nersisyan, who heads the Andrei Sakharove Human Rights Center
    in Armenia, has written an open letter to RA Police Chief Valery
    Gasparyan, calling on him to either discipline individual police
    officers found guilty of using inappropriate force against peaceful
    protesters, or else to resign.

    The letter comes on the heels on recent incidents in Yerevan in which
    police officers have been accused of employing heavy-handed tactics,
    including outright intimidation and beating, against activists.

    Nersisyan writes that in Armenia the police continue to be used as
    a "club" by authorities to intimidate citizens engaged in peaceful
    protest.

    The human rights defender also accuses Gasparyan of failing to deliver
    on his promise to make qualitative changes within the ranks of the
    police, adding that recent events give the impression that police
    officers are being trained to be more aggressive and hostile when it
    comes to dealing with the public.

    Nersisyan rhetorically asks how Gasparyan intends to create more
    public confidence towards the police given the behaviour of cops over
    the past week.

    Photo: Police Chief Valery Gasparyan



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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