ACCORDING TO AGHVAN HOVSEPIAN, FACT-FINDING GROUP’S ACTIVITY IS FIRST OF ALL BENEFICIAL FOR PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE

Noyan Tapan
Oct 31, 2008

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, NOYAN TAPAN. Issues regarding court and
legal reforms, process of fulfillment of Resolutions N 1609 and
1620 of PACE Monitoring Commission, Prosecutor’s Office-NA Ad-hoc
Committee-fact-finding group cooperation were discussed at the
October 30 meeting of RA Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepian with
newly appointed Special Representative of Council of Europe Secretary
General to Armenia Silvia Zehe.

According to the Press Service of the RA Prosecutor General’s Office,
A. Hovsepian in general outline presented the results of preliminary
investigation of the criminal case filed in connection with the mass
disorders occurred on March 1-2 in Yerevan. He said that 89 criminal
cases on 104 persons have been sent to the court during the 6 months
of preliminary investigation, and nearly 10 out of them are at the
stage of hearing at present: judicial acts have been already made on
the other criminal cases. Seven people are under preliminary arrest
at present, the preliminary investigation on their part finished on
September 5, and from September 10 they and their lawyers were given
a possibility to get acquainted with the materials of the criminal
case. Only one defendant finished getting acquainted with the materials
of the criminal case within the past 50 days.

Highly estimating the formation of the fact-finding group, A. Hovsepian
said that group’s activity is first of all beneficial for the
Prosecutor’s Office, and the latter will be only thankful if the
fact-finding group manages to get new facts, which will contribute
to clarification of the circumstances of registered 10 cases of
death and 250 people’s receiving bodily injuries and disclosure of
those guilty, giving an estimation to legality and proportionality of
policemen’s actions, revelation of all participants of the disorders,
their executors, inciters, assistants, and organizers.