Armenian Army Captain Arrested for “Dereliction of Duty” in Soldier’s
Murder Case

11:13, February 14, 2015

Captain Artyom Avetisyan, an officer at the Vazgen Sarhgsyan Military
Institute has been arrested and charged with “dereliction of duty” in
the death of Haykaz Barseghyan, a private in the Armenian army whose
body was found on January 29 hanging from a rope attached to the
horizontal bar in the gym of a training unit in Yerevan he was
assigned to.

On February 2, four Armenian soldiers from the same unit were indicted
for the murder of Barseghyan.

The official charge levied by the military investigative department of
Armenia’s Investigative Committee against the four was “murder by a
group of people, or by an organized group, resulting from hooliganism”
(RA Criminal Code Article 104).

An investigation into the killing of Haykaz Barseghyan is ongoing.