COURT TO EXAMINE COMPLAINT OF REPRESENTATIVES OF LEVON GULIAN’S LEGAL SUCCESSOR ON APRIL 18

Noyan Tapan
April 16, 2008

YEREVAN, APRIL 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The complaint of the representatives
of Levon Gulian’s legal successor will be examined at the general
jurisdiction court of Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork-Marash communities
on April 18. Hrayr Ghukasian, a representative of Gulian’s legal
successor, saying this at the April 16 press conference, mentioned that
they appeal against the decision made by the Special Investigation
Service on March 12, which regarded quashing the case on the fact of
L. Gulian’s death with the motivation of lack of corpus delicti. It
should be mentioned that Gulian died in the criminal investigation
building of RA Police on May 12, 2007, according to the official
version, in consequence of falling down from the window of second
floor at the moment of taking to flight. The case has been instituted
at Yerevan Prosecutor’s Office, by the signs of part 1, Article 110,
RA Criminal Code (driving to suicide).

According to the defence party, the preliminary examination that
lasted for ten months was one-sided, not objective, the actions of
Police employees aimed at depriving L. Gulian of freedom by force,
using tortures to him, and finally, causing his death, carried out
from early in the morning of May 10 to May 12 have not been examined
and given a proper evaluation. The information provided by Police
employees, who are directly interested in the given case’s outcome,
were the basis of the decision to quash the case. That information
was not checked and analysed. The preliminary examination was not
unbiassed, transparent, and efficient, almost all mediations of the
representatives of Gulian’s legal successor were rejected, they were
not involved in implementation of any investigation or other judicial
act, did not have a possibility to ask questions to policemen, and
all materials of the case became accessible for them only after the
end of the preliminary examination.

The defence party considers that the preliminary examination
body disregarded a number of evidence in the case, testimonies of
witnesses, expertise conclusions, which not only refute the version
of an accident, but also ground "criminal actions of police employees
to L. Gulian."