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According to the testimonies of those policemen on June 05 they visited A. Hakobyan at his apartment in order to give him the summons, but the latter was drunk, used bad words towards them, then he signed the paper on the wrong place and afterwards hit them. As a result two policemen came to help their collogues and accompanied him to the police department. According to the policemen testimonies they did not hit A. Hakobyan. A. Hakobyan in his turn requested them to give answer to the questions regarding the bumps on his head. The policeman Vahe Badalyan answered that A. Hakobyan’s may hit…

According to the testimonies of those policemen on June 05 they visited A. Hakobyan at his apartment in order to give him the summons, but the latter was drunk, used bad words towards them, then he signed the paper on the wrong place and afterwards hit them. As a result two policemen came to help their collogues and accompanied him to the police department. According to the policemen testimonies they did not hit A. Hakobyan. A. Hakobyan in his turn requested them to give answer to the questions regarding the bumps on his head. The policeman Vahe Badalyan answered that A. Hakobyan’s may hit…

Findings of the Study of Facts Related to the Circumstances of the Death of Officer Hamlet Tadevosyan of Detachment 1032 of the Police Troops

Findings of the Study of Facts Related to the Circumstances of the Death of Officer Hamlet Tadevosyan of Detachment 1032 of the Police Troops

Findings of the Study of Facts Related to the Circumstances of the Death of Officer Hamlet Tadevosyan of Detachment 1032 of the Police Troops

The Office of the Prosecutor General, which supervised the pre-trial investigation, failed to reveal the deficiencies and violations committed throughout the investigation and failed to take measures to address them. V. Harutyunyan, the Leader of the Investigative Team of the Special Investigative Service, had the obligation to consider the impermissibility of the use, as a basis for charges, of evidence obtained in breach of 105(1.3) of the Criminal Procedure Code, i.e. evidence obtained by a person that did not have the power to conduct investigative proceedings or to perform investigati…

The Office of the Prosecutor General, which supervised the pre-trial investigation, failed to reveal the deficiencies and violations committed throughout the investigation and failed to take measures to address them. V. Harutyunyan, the Leader of the Investigative Team of the Special Investigative Service, had the obligation to consider the impermissibility of the use, as a basis for charges, of evidence obtained in breach of 105(1.3) of the Criminal Procedure Code, i.e. evidence obtained by a person that did not have the power to conduct investigative proceedings or to perform investigati…

The Office of the Prosecutor General, which supervised the pre-trial investigation, failed to reveal the deficiencies and violations committed throughout the investigation and failed to take measures to address them. V. Harutyunyan, the Leader of the Investigative Team of the Special Investigative Service, had the obligation to consider the impermissibility of the use, as a basis for charges, of evidence obtained in breach of 105(1.3) of the Criminal Procedure Code, i.e. evidence obtained by a person that did not have the power to conduct investigative proceedings or to perform investigati…

This is the first case in Armenia when a human rights defender is detained. It came as a warning sign that the Armenian authorities have now started to exert the pressure on human rights defenders after having clamped down on the political opposition and the critical media. On June 12 the members of the South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders protested against the unlawful and ill-grounded detention of Arshaluys Hakobyan in the Statement addressing the President of the Republic of Armenia Serj Sargsyan, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Gevorg Danielyan, Prosecution …