ALEXANDER GIVOYEV KILLED

Noyan Tapan
Aug 09 2006

YEREVAN, AUGUST 9, NOYAN TAPAN. Alexander Givoyev, the head of the
Organization for Protection of Children’s Rights, a businessman
was killed in the marz of Aragatsotn on August 8. As Sona Truzian,
the spokesperson of the Prosecutor’s General Office of Armenia
informed Radio Liberty, the murder took place at about 13:30, on the
Ashtarak-Gyumri road, near the village of Voskevaz.

According to preliminary data, Alexander Givoyev who was with his
family driving to Gyumri in his Grand Cherokee car, stopped at one of
shops. A red "VAZ 21-09" car without regisration number drove to him,
out of which a shot was fired in Givoyev’s direction. As a result,
Givoyev and saleswoman Gyulnara Karapetian were killed. A criminal
action was brought on the occasion of the case.