"THE COURT IS A MARIONETTE IN THE HANDS OF AUTHORITIES"
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08:07 pm | April 19, 2010 | Politics
Artak Zeynalyan, the advocate of the March 1 victims, today presented
in the Court of Kentron and Nork-Marash districts the complaint
of relatives of victims Tigran Khacahtryan, Gor Kloyan and Armen
Farmanyan. Zeynalyan stressed that one of the victims’ fundamental
rights – the right to life – had been violated and the country must
protect it.
The relatives were challenging the inactivity of the pre-trial body –
Special Investigation Service.
All the three victims died of the "Cheriomukha -7" tear gas grenades.
Two of them – Tigran Khacahtryan, 23, and Armen Kloyan, 34, were
injured in the head and Gor Kloyan, 29, in the right groin.
"It is well-known that only policemen used Cheriomukha -7 tear-gas
weapons. To date, the SIS failed to file an action on murders, detect
policemen shooting at demonstrator or examine the scene of action.
Many questions are left unanswered which speaks of the body’s
inactivity," announced Artak Zeynalyan.
During the whole sitting, the relatives crying.
"I do not want to make an impression that we are making an inquiry,"
said Judge Gayane Karakhanyan adding that the preliminary investigation
is still underway.
The advocate reminded the judge that no criminal case had been
instituted on the murders hence; they could not speak of a preliminary
investigation.
To this, Prosecutor Harutyun Harutyunyan remarked that Zeynalyan was
unaware of the case material. Then he requested the court to reject
the relatives’ complaint on the ground that an unbiased inquiry into
the case was initiated.
Upon the petition of the advocate, the court sitting was adjourned
till May 5.
"The judge openly shows disrespect for the ten victims, their relatives
and advocate. This is not a court, this is a marionette serving the
interests of authorities," said Alla Hovhannisyan, the mother of
March 1 victim Tigran Khacahtryan, after the sitting.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
