RA JUSTICE MINISTRY DENIES DETAINEE BEATING

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
23.07.2009 23:02 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian Ministry of Justice refuted Haykakan
Zhamanak newspaper’s publication on beating of a detainee in the
pre-trial prison on July 23. The paper said that while its journalists
were attending Nikol Pashinyan, one of Armenian opposition leaders,
sounds of beatings were heard in the room next door.

The Ministry responded that during a confrontation of two detainees
a quarrel started between them.