FOUR POLICEMEN ACCUSED OF ABUSE OF OFFICIAL POWERS SENTENCED

YEREVAN, JULY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. The Court of First Instance of the
Kentron and Nork-Marash communities in Yerevan with Zhora Vardanian at
the head pronounced the judgement of the case filed against four
policemen charged with perjury and abuse of official powers on July 3.

Marat Manukian, the section leader of the Protection Division of the
Guard Department to the Police Central Department, was sentenced to
three years imprisonment, and policemen Hayrapet Giulamirian was
condemned to two years imprisonment. Policemen Vardan Gabrielian and
Arman Khachatrian were sentenced to two and three years of conventional
imprisonment. Diana Simonian, the cashier of the Alen-Elen nightclub,
was also sentenced to one-year conventional imprisonment.

According to the materials of the case, M. Manukian and A. Khachatrian,
who were on duty in the Alen-Elen nightclub in Yerevan on June 30, 2006
on the illegal orders of the club’s manager Vl. Bejanian, forcedly took
a customer of the club, A. Babum, a citizen of the Islamic Republic of
Iran, to the police sentry post located in the club for allegedly
entering the club with a knife. Vl. Bejanian interrogated and beat
Babum there, inflicting relatively serious injuries upon him. Then the
policemen gave false testimony against A. Babum.

It is also mentioned in the charge that on July 5, 2006 H. Gyulamirian
started an ungrounded argument with the same club customer Tigran
Galstian, then beat him with M. Manukian causing minor injuries. Vardan
Gabrielian, the next defendant in the case, wrote a forged report and
gave false testimony against T. Galstian.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress