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Under the criminal case on violence against Armine Arakelyan in May in the Republic Square in Yerevan by the law-enforcement officers and then by the psychiatric facility staff, it was decided that the ‘Nubarashen’ psychiatric clinic staff would not be prosecuted.

We learnt about this from the decree of Erebuni and Nubarashen administrative districts Investigative Division of the Investigative Department of Yerevan city, RA Investigative Committee, of December 29, 2016.

G. Matevosyan, Senior Investigator at the Investigative Division, substantiated his decree by the lack of elements of crime and noted that no evidence was obtained on beating Armine Arakelyan by the psychiatric facility staff and the possibilities to obtain such evidence had been exhausted.

Moreover, the investigative body views the health providers’ actions of forcing Armine Arakelyan into a ward violently and tying her up as lawful “considering A. Arakelyan’s aggressive behavior.”

Note that A. Arakelyan’s representative, Arayik Zalyan, lawyer at HCA Vanadzor repeatedly applied to the investigating body to forward the case to the RA Special Investigation Service taking into account the alleged offense by officials.

However, the investigating body constantly postpones the resolution of the issue trying to conceal the fact that law enforcement officers committed an offence and we consider it illegal that this case is examined by the Investigative Committee.

The decree of Erebuni and Nubarashen administrative districts Investigative Division of the Investigative Department of Yerevan city, RA Investigative Committee, of December 29, 2016 also reads that the criminal case was sent to the Prosecutor’s Office of Erebuni and Nubarashen administrative districts to consider the claim on forwarding the criminal case to the RA Special Investigation Service.

See also: Investigative agency persistently fails to give a legal assessment to the fact of police violence

Persecutions against Armine Arakelyan continue