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    MILITARY POLICE TORTURE INVALID MAN FOR BEING A "SABOTEUR", MOTHER TELLS FORRIGHTS.AM

    11.07.2014 10:06 epress.am

    A resident of Martuni, Gegharkunik Marz, 2nd degree invalid 31-year
    old Alik Zakharyan, visited his relative's grave back in July 19th of
    this year, when a car with a Defense Ministry license plate pulled
    up and men with machine guns came out and twisted his arms back
    and handcuffed him. Zakharyan's mother, Sona Sahakyan, spoke to
    forrights.am about the incident.

    "They told him he was a Turkish saboteur, bent him down and began
    to strike him, forced him to drink the dirty water from the stream,
    beat him, and threw him into the car, and brought him to the military
    police department. They tormented my son for 5 and half hours with
    his hands cuffed. My son told them where he is from, whose son he is,
    and that he is not a Turk. He had an Armenian book with him, but they
    said a Turk could also have an Armenian book," told Sona Sahakyan.

    According to her, the Military Police staff continued to mock and
    be violent toward her invalid son at the department; "They pulled
    his shirt off, they hit him for 10 minutes with his hands tied, they
    then said that the Turks... they pulled his pants off and riped it
    to photograph his genitals to convince themselves that he's a Turk..."

    The mother said that they returned her son back home with multiple
    physical damages, and he was horrified; "When my son came back home,
    his face was blue, his eyes filled with blood, his pants ripped, my son
    was unstable and dreadfully afraid. Until today, his facial bones and
    arms where he was cuffed still hurt, he had multiple physical wounds."

    Sona Sahakyan appealed to the police who advised her not to complain
    and continued saying that if she protested, it would be worse. "The
    Head of the Police Criminal Investigation Unit, named Galstyan, Arayik,
    told me that it's something, it happened, don't complain, I had been
    there too but I didn't beat him, if it's necessary we could turn the
    tables and screw your son over so bad that you'd be amazed".

    The Martuni Police Chief was also against the complaint; "You won't
    get anywhere, all you will lose is time and money, and he said that
    the military police staff hit him."

    The mother also noted that her son is an invalid and had serious
    issues before, also during his military service.

    The article in its entirety at forrights.am, in Armenian.

    http://www.epress.am/en/2014/11/07/military-police-torture-invalid-man-for-being-a-%E2%80%9Csaboteur%E2%80%9D-mother-tells-forrights-am.html



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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