HMAYAK HOVHANNISIAN: CHIEF OF "YEREVAN" CRIMINAL-EXECUTIVE OFFICE
VIOLATES LAW
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. RA National Assembly Deputy Hmayak
Hovhannisian was twice refused to visit Vahagn Chakhalian, a member of
the "United Javakhk" democratic alliance, who is under arrest at the
"Yerevan" criminal-executive office, accused of illegally breaking the
RA border. And according to Article 22 of the RA Criminal-Executive
Code, as H.Hovhannisian mentioned at the October 19 press conference,
deputies have right to freely visit criminal-executive offices. In
the deputy’s words, before his visit of the previous day, NA Speaker
Tigran Torosian had a 20-minute phone conversation with isolation
chief Hamlet Khlghatian, but the deputy was refused even after it.
"That’s, the demand of the NA Speaker, the second man of the state,
to keep the law, was ignored by the "vertukha" chief prison officer,"
H.Hovhannisian said, explaining that the "vertukha" is the person
who establishes his own orders in the prison and agree those orders
with its "roof", "in the given case, with Justice Minister Davit
Haroutiunian." "D.Haroutiunian, presenting himself in Europes
as a democratic minister, in essence, is a zone supervisor" the
deputy stated. H.Hovhannisian believes that D.Haroutiunian "put NA
Speaker Tigran Torosian in a scandalous situation" so the latter must
demand the Minister’s resignation or "decide the issue connected with
him." Responding the Noyan Tapan correspondent’s question, NA Speaker
T.Torosian stated that if anybody, including the deputy as well,
believes that his rights were violated, he may solve the problem by
the judicial order.