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    OPPOSITION ACTIVIST CLAIMS ARMENIAN POLICE CHIEF PERSONALLY BEAT HIM

    http://www.epress.am/en/2013/11/07/opposition-activist-claims-armenian-police-chief-personally-beat-him.html
    11.07.2013 19:16 epress.am

    RA Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan on the evening of Nov. 5 personally
    used force against Shant Harutyunyan and Vardan Vardanyan while
    the two were in police custody, Harutyunyan and Vardanyan informed
    Armenian National Congress MP Nikol Pashinyan on Wednesday, reports
    local dailyHaykakan Zhamanak.

    The opposition MP yesterday met with those detained during the clashes
    on Mashtots Ave. in central Yerevan.

    "I visited the detention center and met with all 20 arrested in
    connection with the Nov. 5 incident. Some of the arrested are not
    eating and are thinking about declaring a hunger strike, but they
    haven't yet made a final decision, which is why I don't consider it
    appropriate to identify them.

    "Some of the arrested have injuries. Shant Harutyunyan informed me
    that Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan, as well as Deputy Police Chief
    Hunan Poghosyan, personally used violence against him in the Kentron
    [police] division. Arrested war veteran Vardan Vardanyan informed me
    that he too was personally subject to violence by the police chief. He
    said that the police chief beat him, while other officers yanked his
    [war] medal off him. Shant Harutyunyan said that Hunan Poghosyan also
    threatened his son, uttering curses of a sexual nature. Shant said
    that during that time a group of police officers were restraining
    his hands. As a MP, I think, there should be a proper investigation
    on the basis of these allegations," Pashinyan said.

    Pashinyan also said that Shant Harutyunyan doesn't want an attorney.

    "But I said, if possible I think it's worth it to have an attorney. As
    for what Shant Harutyunyan will decide, I can't say," he said.

    Read the full story in today's issue of Haykakan Zhamanak (in
    Armenian only).

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