7 POLICEMEN RECOGNIZED AS AGGRIEVED PARTY WITH REGARD TO CASE ON OCTOBER 23 PROCESSION
Noyan Tapan
Dec 5, 2007
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. 7 police collaborators have
been recognized as aggrieved party with regard to the case on the
October 23 procession. This information was provided to a Noyan
Tapan correspondent by the Press and Public Relations Department of
the RA Police. The issue on recognizing other people as aggrieved
party will be decided after receiving the conclusion of the forensic
examination. Particularly, the conclusion of the forensic examination
of Tigran Makeyan, the son of Petros Makeyan, the Chairman of the
Democratic Way party, has not been received as yet.
It should be mentioned that a clash happened between the police
collaborators and the procession participants during the procession
held on October 23 for the purpose of making people aware of the
October 26 rally of the opposition. The police filed a case on the
indications of Article 316 of the RA Criminal Code: using violence
towards a representative of the state power. Nikol Pashinian, the
editor-in-chief of the Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Time), and Shogher
Matevosian, the editor-in-chief of the Fourth Power newspaper, Petros
Makeyan and his sons Tigran and Karen Makeyans are involved in the
case as defendants.