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Human Rights Defender's Appeal Rejected: Prosecutor Justifies Use of Force
03.06.2015 17:23 epress.am
The RA Special Investigation Service had made a decision rejecting the
initiation of a criminal case for violence used against 76-year old
Zinaida Gyozalyan and Veles NGO president Marina Poghosyan. The latter
consequently appealed the decision, while today, March 6, the Court of
General Jurisdiction of Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun administrative
districts, representated by Judge Levon Avetisyan, rejected the
appeal, stating it as ungrounded.
According to Poghosyan, on March 17, 2014, during an eviction of
residents of a textiles shop on Abovyan St., employees from the
Judicial Act Compulsory Enforcement Service subjected 75-year old
Zinaida Gyuzalyan to violence and when she tried to intervene, they
locked her in a room. Afterwards, the employees used violence against
Poghosyan by taking her outside the residence and throwing her down
the stairs. According to the investigator of the case, the service
employees had "gently embraced the human rights defender."
Marina Poghosyan, who appealed to the court, noted that investigator
Arakelyan had not only showed inaction, for example, not organizing a
confrontation or taking into account the fact that they had called the
police and others multiple times that day, but also allowed an
official fraud, issueing four identical testimonies of the victims.
Poghosyan also noted that the day of the event she was present there
as a human rights defender and her name was not in the court decision,
so the Judicial Act Compulsory Enforcement Service employees had no
right to subject her to violence.
Prosecutor Yeritsyan was in court defending the SIS' decision. He
countered, saying that Marina Poghosyan had created obstacles for the
representatives of JACES, and for that reason they "were made" to use
force.
Marina Poghosyan will appeal the decision to the Court of Appeals.
http://www.epress.am/en/2015/03/06/human-rights-defender%E2%80%99s-appeal-rejected-prosecutor-justifies-use-of-force.html
From: Baghdasarian
03.06.2015 17:23 epress.am
The RA Special Investigation Service had made a decision rejecting the
initiation of a criminal case for violence used against 76-year old
Zinaida Gyozalyan and Veles NGO president Marina Poghosyan. The latter
consequently appealed the decision, while today, March 6, the Court of
General Jurisdiction of Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun administrative
districts, representated by Judge Levon Avetisyan, rejected the
appeal, stating it as ungrounded.
According to Poghosyan, on March 17, 2014, during an eviction of
residents of a textiles shop on Abovyan St., employees from the
Judicial Act Compulsory Enforcement Service subjected 75-year old
Zinaida Gyuzalyan to violence and when she tried to intervene, they
locked her in a room. Afterwards, the employees used violence against
Poghosyan by taking her outside the residence and throwing her down
the stairs. According to the investigator of the case, the service
employees had "gently embraced the human rights defender."
Marina Poghosyan, who appealed to the court, noted that investigator
Arakelyan had not only showed inaction, for example, not organizing a
confrontation or taking into account the fact that they had called the
police and others multiple times that day, but also allowed an
official fraud, issueing four identical testimonies of the victims.
Poghosyan also noted that the day of the event she was present there
as a human rights defender and her name was not in the court decision,
so the Judicial Act Compulsory Enforcement Service employees had no
right to subject her to violence.
Prosecutor Yeritsyan was in court defending the SIS' decision. He
countered, saying that Marina Poghosyan had created obstacles for the
representatives of JACES, and for that reason they "were made" to use
force.
Marina Poghosyan will appeal the decision to the Court of Appeals.
http://www.epress.am/en/2015/03/06/human-rights-defender%E2%80%99s-appeal-rejected-prosecutor-justifies-use-of-force.html
From: Baghdasarian