7th DAY OF LEVON GULIAN’S DEATH MARKED WITH MOURNING PROCESSION

Noyan Tapan
May 21 2007

YEREVAN, MAY 21, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA ombudsman Armen Harutyunian
condemns and considers as inadmissible the police’s behavior
which caused the death of citizen Levon Gulian under unrevealed
circumstances. "This man, who had come to the police of his own free
will, was brought into such a state that he jumped out of the window,"
the ombudsman said at the May 21 press conference. The experts who
made the alternative forensic examination of Levon Gulian’s body –
Markus Rotshild, of Cologne University’s Forensic Medicine Clinic, and
Piter M. Let of the University of Southern Denmark, were to participate
in the press conference but they avoided meeting with reporters.

Karen Hakoian, member of the initiative group composed of
representatives of several NGOs, said that the expert conclusion will
be presented after the histological examination is completed. It is
expected that the conclusion will be ready within a week.

On the same day – the seventh day of Levon Gulian’s death, his
relatives and the public organized a mourning procession from
Yerevan’s Republic Square to the administrative building of the RA
police. Throughout the procession the participants were followed by
policemen. At the administrative building of the police, the policemen
formed a live barrier preventing the procession participants from
putting lit candles and flowers on the pavement near the building.