COURT HEARING OF STATE POLICE FIELD SERVICE POLICEMEN CASE POSTPONED

NOYAN TAPAN
SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
YEREVAN

At the September 22 court sitting Gegham Harutyunian – one of the two
policemen accused of committing violence against citizens during the
March 1-2 events in Yerevan last year – requested to be given time
for inviting a lawyer. The next sitting of the general jurisdiction
court of Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork-Marash communities is scheduled
for October 8.

To recap, Gegham Harutyunian and Hovhannes Ghukasian, policemen of the
regiment of Yerevan’s State Police Field Service, have been charged
under the RA Criminal Code Article 309, Part 2 (exceeding official
authority) for committing violence against citizens and hitting them
with rubber batons in Republic Square of Yerevan on the morning of
1 March 2008.