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ARTHUR SAKUNTS: PROTESTING SOCIETY WILL PLAN FURTHER ACTIONS
The actions of the police during the past few days indicated that
reforms in this institution were superficial and titular, the head
of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor office Arthur Sakunts
told Lragir.am.
"The main evaluation of reforms is treatment of citizens by the
police. These evaluations are based innumerable observations reflected
in international reports on Armenia. Last year the UN Committee
Against Torture and the Human Rights Committee reports noted cases of
violence, degrading treatment, torture and the necessity of impartial
investigation of these facts," Arthur Sakunts says.
According to him, investments re-equipment, staff training did not
help achieve change.
"When the chief of police says during a meeting with the graduates
of the Police College states that they deal with the riffraff and
criminals, thinking is self-evident. They identify the person with
actions of citizens. This is not a thinking of an official. One must
evaluate actions, not personality, one has to be faithful to the law
independent from a person's act and one has no right to using degrading
treatment, such as those descriptions," the human rights activist says.
The protesting society will plan their further actions after the
Police and the Prosecutor General's Office respond to the letters.
Public hearings will be help on the police reforms, particularly their
productivity, applicability, which is one of the important points of
the Association Agreement expected to be signed between Armenia and
the EU.
23:46 28/08/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/society/view/30752
The actions of the police during the past few days indicated that
reforms in this institution were superficial and titular, the head
of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor office Arthur Sakunts
told Lragir.am.
"The main evaluation of reforms is treatment of citizens by the
police. These evaluations are based innumerable observations reflected
in international reports on Armenia. Last year the UN Committee
Against Torture and the Human Rights Committee reports noted cases of
violence, degrading treatment, torture and the necessity of impartial
investigation of these facts," Arthur Sakunts says.
According to him, investments re-equipment, staff training did not
help achieve change.
"When the chief of police says during a meeting with the graduates
of the Police College states that they deal with the riffraff and
criminals, thinking is self-evident. They identify the person with
actions of citizens. This is not a thinking of an official. One must
evaluate actions, not personality, one has to be faithful to the law
independent from a person's act and one has no right to using degrading
treatment, such as those descriptions," the human rights activist says.
The protesting society will plan their further actions after the
Police and the Prosecutor General's Office respond to the letters.
Public hearings will be help on the police reforms, particularly their
productivity, applicability, which is one of the important points of
the Association Agreement expected to be signed between Armenia and
the EU.
23:46 28/08/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/society/view/30752