The condemned member of the Grand Patrol Service Station Occupants’ group has not been introduced about the basis of his arrest: The advocate’s report (video)

The advocate of Helsinki Association for Human Rights NGO Arayik Papikyan who is exercising the defense of the condemned member of the Grand Patrol Service Station Occupants’ group Ashot

Petrosyan, has introduced some particularities on the situation and the state of his client. He has informed that Ashot Petrosyan is in the penitentiary hospital and his health state is adequate. Arayik Papikyan underlined the fact that the official messages announced about his client; the incident with car when he was surrounded by the police officers, also the cut parts of the speech records of the occupant group and the official interpretations of these records do not correspond to each other and to reality.

“This means that firstly there is a distortion of the context in which the interpretation is put and which not only violates the innocence presumption but also leads the case examination to the wrong direction”. Told Papikyan

Speaking about the incident with car Papikyan interpreted that the group activities where his client was engaged never followed the goal against any person, including police officers.

Let’s revise yesterday’s message of police concerning event’s, where they told that near 01:00 AM a car coming from the occupant’s Grand Patrol Service Station was driven to the police officers chain.

In the end the advocate also mentioned about Ashot Petrosyan’s being de facto deprived from his right to legal defense. Armenian government kept the formality to provide him with a public defender, but before that Ashot Petrosan was not even told about the grounds of the arrest.