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Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor has already reported that by its ruling of March 23, 2016, the General Jurisdiction Court of Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun administrative districts, Yerevan, RA dismissed the complaint submitted by Tatevik Siradeghyan, lawyer at Yerevan Office of HCA Vanadzor and representative of Karen Kyupelyan who had been detained illegally for almost a day at the administrative premises of NSS. By the complaint above, T. Siradeghyan required that the Court annulled the RA SIS Senior Investigator for High-Profile Cases A. Ohanyan’s decree of October 19, 2015 on not initiating criminal prosecution.

The Court found that the investigating agency had taken all the measures stipulated by the RA Code of Criminal Procedure for comprehensive, complete and objective examination of the circumstances of the case and made a lawful decision.

Note that on November 1, 2007, at about 6 pm, RA National Security Service officers E. N. and H. M. and another RA NSS officer apprehended K. Kyupelyan by his own vehicle from Zvartnots Airport to the administrative premises of RA NSS, where he reached at about 7 pm, After being transferred to the administrative premises of RA NSS, K. Kyupelyan was kept there for almost a day, till about 5 pm of November 2, 2007.

On April 18, 2016, K. Kyupelyan’s representative T. Siradeghyan submitted an appeal against the court ruling above, by which she expressed a position that the rulings made during the investigation of the case did not follow from the evidence obtained during the preliminary investigation and requested to reverse the ruling of the General Jurisdiction Court of Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun administrative districts, Yerevan, RA dated March 23, 2016 and to make a new judicial act.

The examination of the appeal was scheduled to be held at the RA Court of Criminal Appeals on May 16, 2016, at 11:30 am.