LAWYER DETAINED?
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15:04:35 – 14/08/2009
Head of the Helsinki association, Mikael Danielyan and member of the
Chamber of Advocates, Gayane Khachatryan presented the details of
the case of the lawyer Arshaluys Hakobyan.
The case concerns the member of the Helsinki association, Arshaluys
Khachatryan, who was an observer at the May 31 election. The latter
was accused of violence against police officials. The lawyer Gayane
Khachatryan noted that Arshaluys Hakobyan was detained on June 5. And
several days ago, the court of first instance prolonged the term of
the arrest by 1 month.
Two officials of the Kentron police department brought a notification
for an examination to Hakobyan’s house. In accordance with the law,
the police officials have to hand the notification to the recipient
or to a member of their family. Arshaluys’s wife told the officials,
that her husband was sleeping. Nevertheless, they entered the house,
woke Arshaluys up, and demanded to sign the notification. Because
of bad vision, Arshaluys signed in a wrong place, after which the
police officials started to threaten him. Afterwards, Hakobyan asked
the officials to leave the apartment after which the officials
used violence against him. But it is noted in the criminal case
that Hakobyan used violence against the police officials. Only the
testimonies of the officials are included in the case, which is a
violation of the law, stated Gayane Khachatryan.
According to Khachatryan, the decision to detain Hakobyan was wrong. it
was appealed in the court of appeal, but was rejected.