POLICE INVESTIGATE FACT OF BEATING THREE PERSONS IN NOR NORK
Noyan Tapan
Feb 11, 2008
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 11, NOYAN TAPAN. The police are conducting
investigation into the fact of three persons being subjected to beating
in 4th block of Nor Nork district in Yerevan. According to information
at the website of the RA police, the Nor Nork police station received
information from a hospital on February 7, at 10 p.m. that Aghvan
Hakobian, Gevorg Zakarian and Hovhannes Grigorian requsted medical
aid in connection with injuries they received in various parts of
their bodies. As it turned out, at about 7:10 p.m. on the same day,
some unknown persons beat them during an argument in 4th block of
Nor Nork, inflicting injuries.
To recap, according to Armenian press, the above mentioned young
men were members of the headquarters of the RA presidential candidate
Levon Ter-Petrosian, and while putting up leflets about the rally to be
held on February 9, they were beaten by the head of the pre-election
headquarters of another presidential candidate – Serge Sargsian,
and his companions.
The spokesman for the RA ombudsman Grigory Grigoriants said during
a talk with NT correspondent that the ombudsman Armen Harutyunian
condemns this violence. Accoridng to him, the fast response group
of the ombudsman office met with the victims who are already out of
hospital, and police are taking measures to find those guilty.