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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
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