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AVETIK ISHKHANYAN. "A PERSON CAN BE BEATEN IN THE POLICE BY FIVE OR SIX PEOPLE WITHOUT ANY STATUS" (VIDEO)
October 16 2013
Chairman of Armenian Helsinki Committee Avetik Ishkhanyan, being
a member of the public monitoring group of RA MJ penitentiary
institutions has many times participated in conducting public
monitoring at the penitentiary institutions of Armenia. Today,
he attended the presentation of 2012 annual report of the public
monitoring group conducting monitoring at the Police Detention
Facilities (PDF). To remind that those convicted in prison by the
court verdict are kept in penitentiary institutions, and those not
yet convicted, detained or arrested are kept in PDFs. To the question
of "Aravot.am" as to what has changed over the years in detention
facilities, first of all for clarification Mr. Ishkhanyan noted that
he had not participated in the activities of the group conducting
public monitoring in PDFs but he was presenting the reports of the
Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)
regarding the problems available in our police system, and right from
the CPT report he became aware of the problems available in the PDFs.
Accordingly, Mr. Ishkhanyan considered negligence of international
principles subject to mandatory execution by Armenia problematic. "As
a rule, the three most important principles of the Council of Europe's
Committee for the Prevention of Torture are not maintained, which are
as follows: from the moment of its actual apprehended, the detained
person is entitled to have three most important rights: to inform the
third person or his folks about his whereabouts, to have a lawyer,
and to use medical services, if necessary. Why do I emphasize from
the moment of actual apprehended, because the person from the moment
of invited to the police station, is actually in apprehended, even if
he is not arrested or detained." Mr. Ishkhanyan says that, as a rule,
our citizens do not use these three indisputable rights. "The man
can be found in the police station without knowing his status, he can
be moved from one room to another, be beaten by five or six people,
be broken, if he asks for an attorney, he will be laughed at, they
may say why do you need a lawyer, and put him into a situation that
he will sign what they want, and, afterwards, the arrest will be made.
This is a defective practice; the ways to change it are not still
noticed."
Melania BARSEGHYAN Details in the video
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/10/16/162053/
October 16 2013
Chairman of Armenian Helsinki Committee Avetik Ishkhanyan, being
a member of the public monitoring group of RA MJ penitentiary
institutions has many times participated in conducting public
monitoring at the penitentiary institutions of Armenia. Today,
he attended the presentation of 2012 annual report of the public
monitoring group conducting monitoring at the Police Detention
Facilities (PDF). To remind that those convicted in prison by the
court verdict are kept in penitentiary institutions, and those not
yet convicted, detained or arrested are kept in PDFs. To the question
of "Aravot.am" as to what has changed over the years in detention
facilities, first of all for clarification Mr. Ishkhanyan noted that
he had not participated in the activities of the group conducting
public monitoring in PDFs but he was presenting the reports of the
Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)
regarding the problems available in our police system, and right from
the CPT report he became aware of the problems available in the PDFs.
Accordingly, Mr. Ishkhanyan considered negligence of international
principles subject to mandatory execution by Armenia problematic. "As
a rule, the three most important principles of the Council of Europe's
Committee for the Prevention of Torture are not maintained, which are
as follows: from the moment of its actual apprehended, the detained
person is entitled to have three most important rights: to inform the
third person or his folks about his whereabouts, to have a lawyer,
and to use medical services, if necessary. Why do I emphasize from
the moment of actual apprehended, because the person from the moment
of invited to the police station, is actually in apprehended, even if
he is not arrested or detained." Mr. Ishkhanyan says that, as a rule,
our citizens do not use these three indisputable rights. "The man
can be found in the police station without knowing his status, he can
be moved from one room to another, be beaten by five or six people,
be broken, if he asks for an attorney, he will be laughed at, they
may say why do you need a lawyer, and put him into a situation that
he will sign what they want, and, afterwards, the arrest will be made.
This is a defective practice; the ways to change it are not still
noticed."
Melania BARSEGHYAN Details in the video
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/10/16/162053/