PROSECUTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE DENIES ALLEGATIONS OF HUMAN ORGANS SALE

Armenpress
Jun 20 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 20, ARMENPRESS: Sona Truzian, a spokeswoman for the
office of Armenia’s prosecutor general, denied media allegations
about disappearance of a patient from the mental house in Vardenis,
Gegharkunik province and sale of human organs allegedly cut off from
the bodies of its dead residents.

She said an investigation launched to check these rumors found no
supporting evidence. She said investigators exhumed 11 bodies and
none missed a body or an organ. Ms. Truzian said the inquiry was
going on yet.

The allegations were made public by an independent parliament member,
Emma Khudabashian, who was quoted by local newspapers as saying that
a group of residents of Vardenis asked her in a letter to urge fast
investigation into allegations that the mental house’s management
was involved in the sale of human organs for transplants.