BEATEN WITNESSES ARRIVED IN YEREVAN

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[05:58 pm] 13 September, 2007

The employees of "Belisimo" bar in Vanadzor and their parents
organized a protest action in front of the NA. They wanted to meet
the NA Chairman and the RA General Prosecutor. To remind, the bar
belongs to Arman Darbinyan, nephew of Vanadzor Mayor, who is detained
in regard with the assassination of Lori regional prosecutor Albert
Ghazaryan. All employees of the bar were invited to the prosecutor’s
office several times. "They forced us to sign under the evidences
that we had no idea of", they told.

"My son was beaten severely. He is unable to walk.

They injured his head, back and legs", told Karen Totoryan who worked
as a manager in the bar.

The waitress of the bar Satenik Parsamyan told that on 7 September
she was brought to the prosecutor’s office and kept there till late at
night. "They discredited me, scolded and made me give wrong evidences
by beating me".

"They beat me, scolded and made me give defaming evidences about my
boss", said Arman Hovhannissyan.

Victor Dallakayan, a deputy met the demonstrators in front of the
NA and advised them to write an appeal to the RA General Prosecutor,
NA Chairman, Human Rights Defender and him.

He said that he would ask the RA General Prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan
and the NA Chairman Tigran Torosyan

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress