Armenian Police official faults US human rights report

Arminfo
10 Mar 06

Yerevan, 10 March: The Armenian Police disagrees with the criticism
expressed in the report on human rights in 196 countries of the world
published by the US Department of State.

The chief of the main criminal investigation department of the
Armenian Police, Col Ayk Militonyan, said at a press conference today
that he does not know of a case when a detainee was denied medical
aid. “If there are such specific facts, I would like to them to be
submitted to me,” he noted.

At the same time, the department chief assumed that the authors of the
report might have also confused different departments belonging to
different organizations. It is worth noting that the Department of
State also listed as violations registered in the republic death cases
in the army in unclear circumstances, the beating of citizens by
representatives of the law-enforcement agencies, detentions carried
out without court sanction, the impunity of officers of the National
Security Service and the Police, and conditions in prisons that do not
meet medical standards.