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ARMENIA'S SPECIAL INVESTIGATION SERVICE, GENERAL PROSECUTOR DON'T WANT TO UNCOVER REAL CAUSE OF SOLDIER'S DEATH: STATEMENT
06.18.2014 15:50 epress.am
Representatives of the RA Special Investigation Service (SIS) and the
RA Prosecutor General's Office did not appear in the RA Criminal Court
of Appeal on June 17 for consideration of the appeal presented by Artur
Sakunts (pictured, right) and Arayik Zalyan, the representatives of
Heghine Petrosyan (pictured, left), the mother of military conscript
Hayk Movsisyan, who died in a Karabakh prison cell.
Petrosyan's representatives are asking for Hayk Movsisyan to be
recognized as a victim and Heghine Petrosyan as the victim's legal
successor, and to oblige SIS investigator M. Babayan to provide the
decision to quash criminal proceedings, as well as copies of the
case material.
As reported [AM] by the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly (HCA) - Vanadzor
Office, representatives of the SIS and the General Prosecutor's office
informed the court in writing that they will not be present because
they are burdened with work.
Arayik Zalyan said representatives of these state institutions
also failed to appear in court when the case was examined by the
court of first instance. Moreover, the applicant's representatives
petitioned for the participation of the SIS and General Prosecutor's
office representatives, but to no avail. The court attempted to find
out whether Heghine Petrosyan's representative doesn't consider it
necessary to ensure also the presence of the other party at the appeal,
to which Zalyan responded in the affirmative. Thus, consideration of
the appeal was postponed to June 30 at 2:30 pm.
The HCA Vanadzor Office in its statement claimed that representatives
of the SIS and RA General Prosecutor's Office wish to prevent
disclosure of the real circumstances and causes of Hayk Movsisyan's
death by prolonging the process, thereby eliminating the "fresh traces"
of the crime.
On November 20, 2012, a court found rank-and-file soldier Hayk
Movsisyan guilty of evading military service "through maiming, feigned
disease, forgery of documents or other fraud" and sentenced him to
3 years in prison. One week later, he was found dead in a detention
facility in Karabakh.
The prosecutor's office in Nagorno-Karabakh launched a criminal
case on grounds of incitement to suicide, which, however, was
closed due to absence of corpus delicti in the actions of the
penitentiary administration, prisoners in the detention facility,
defendants, and convicts. In order to get a legal assessment of
the actions of officials in the criminal case, it was sent to the
RA Special Investigation Service on grounds of negligence, where
criminal proceedings were instigated. However, Hayk Movsisyan was
not recognized as a victim; thus, the victim and his legal successor
were not given the opportunity to realize their rights enshrined in
the Criminal Procedure Code.
Hayk's mother, speaking to the press earlier, said she doesn't believe
that her son committed suicide.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/06/18/armenias-special-investigation-service-general-prosecutor-dont-want-to-uncover-real-cause-of-soldiers-death-statement.html
From: A. Papazian
06.18.2014 15:50 epress.am
Representatives of the RA Special Investigation Service (SIS) and the
RA Prosecutor General's Office did not appear in the RA Criminal Court
of Appeal on June 17 for consideration of the appeal presented by Artur
Sakunts (pictured, right) and Arayik Zalyan, the representatives of
Heghine Petrosyan (pictured, left), the mother of military conscript
Hayk Movsisyan, who died in a Karabakh prison cell.
Petrosyan's representatives are asking for Hayk Movsisyan to be
recognized as a victim and Heghine Petrosyan as the victim's legal
successor, and to oblige SIS investigator M. Babayan to provide the
decision to quash criminal proceedings, as well as copies of the
case material.
As reported [AM] by the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly (HCA) - Vanadzor
Office, representatives of the SIS and the General Prosecutor's office
informed the court in writing that they will not be present because
they are burdened with work.
Arayik Zalyan said representatives of these state institutions
also failed to appear in court when the case was examined by the
court of first instance. Moreover, the applicant's representatives
petitioned for the participation of the SIS and General Prosecutor's
office representatives, but to no avail. The court attempted to find
out whether Heghine Petrosyan's representative doesn't consider it
necessary to ensure also the presence of the other party at the appeal,
to which Zalyan responded in the affirmative. Thus, consideration of
the appeal was postponed to June 30 at 2:30 pm.
The HCA Vanadzor Office in its statement claimed that representatives
of the SIS and RA General Prosecutor's Office wish to prevent
disclosure of the real circumstances and causes of Hayk Movsisyan's
death by prolonging the process, thereby eliminating the "fresh traces"
of the crime.
On November 20, 2012, a court found rank-and-file soldier Hayk
Movsisyan guilty of evading military service "through maiming, feigned
disease, forgery of documents or other fraud" and sentenced him to
3 years in prison. One week later, he was found dead in a detention
facility in Karabakh.
The prosecutor's office in Nagorno-Karabakh launched a criminal
case on grounds of incitement to suicide, which, however, was
closed due to absence of corpus delicti in the actions of the
penitentiary administration, prisoners in the detention facility,
defendants, and convicts. In order to get a legal assessment of
the actions of officials in the criminal case, it was sent to the
RA Special Investigation Service on grounds of negligence, where
criminal proceedings were instigated. However, Hayk Movsisyan was
not recognized as a victim; thus, the victim and his legal successor
were not given the opportunity to realize their rights enshrined in
the Criminal Procedure Code.
Hayk's mother, speaking to the press earlier, said she doesn't believe
that her son committed suicide.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/06/18/armenias-special-investigation-service-general-prosecutor-dont-want-to-uncover-real-cause-of-soldiers-death-statement.html
From: A. Papazian