POLICE EMPLOYED ‘TERROR’ IN CHARENTSAVAN: ARTHUR SAKUNTS
Tert.am
13:16 06.05.10
Special Investigation Group is not carrying a multi-dimensional
examination of the criminal case filed over a recent incident in
Charentsavan, Head of Vanadzor office of Helsinki Civil Assembly
Arthur Sakunts said at a press conference today.
According to Sakunts the police are focused now only on Vahan Khalafyan
killing while those five others brought to the Charentsavan Police
Station were also subjected to violence.
In his words the family of David Gyulumyan, currently under arrest,
is subjected to what he called "police terror" carried out by the
Deputy Chief of the Charentsavan Police Station Tonoyan.
Referring to Khalafyan’s case Sakunts said that Khalafyan was
definitely killed.
Law enforcement bodies say that Khalafyan was beaten to death. Further
the police officers have allegedly stabbed him twice in an effort to
push forward the version of suicide.
"No one would be able to stab himself twice. How could the police
make such a statement?" said Sakunts.
Speaking about the fact that two individuals involved in the case have
left the country, Sakunts said they were also subjected to violation
while kept in the police station. Sakunts is sure that they were
forced to leave Armenia as they were serious witnesses for that case.
At the same time he recalled that those two young men confessed to
him during a talk that they could hear how Khalafyan was being beaten
in a next door room in the police station.