Another court hearing scheduled on protest participant Taron Siradeghyan’s case
10:52, November 17, 2016 | News, Own news | Police
On November 10, 2016, the RA Administrative Court of Appeals, presided by judge A. Sargsyan, and in the presence of judges A. Abovyan and A. Babyan, examined the appeal submitted by Taron Siradeghyan, defendant and counter-plaintiff, and his representative Tatevik Siradeghyan, lawyer at Yerevan Office of HCA Vanadzor, against the RA Administrative Court’s judgment of March 2, 2016. Note that by its judgment the RA Administrative Court upheld the claim of the RA Police by bringing T. Siradeghyan to administrative responsibility under Article 182 of the RA Code of Administrative Offenses and fining him 50,000 AMD. At the same time, the RA Administrative Court ruled to reject T. Siradeghyan’s counter-claim on declaring the actions of the RA Police unlawful.
The court hearing of November 10, 2016 was attended by Aida Demirkhanyan, representative of plaintiff and counter-defendant RA Police, defendant and counter-plaintiff T. Siradeghyan and his representative.
Upon verifying the identities and powers of the parties, the presiding judge passed to reporting by presenting the grounds and arguments of the appeal. In particular, the appeal contained arguments on imposing on T. Siradeghyan administrative sanction for another act different from that mentioned in the administrative offense records, failure to issue any legal order to him as well as groundless rejection of the counter-claim and violation of the procedures for assessing the evidence under the case and establishing essential facts.
After the report, the court panel judges asked questions the representative of the RA Police on the administrative offense records drafted at Kentron Division of the RA Police Yerevan city Department, the grounds for drafting such records and committal by T. Siradeghyan of an actually antisocial action. To establish the fact of issuing an order, the plaintiff’s representative invoked the video records of the incident within the case showing that, according to the plaintiff party, the police officers required that the protest participants did not come near the RA Public Services Regulatory Commission and then demanded that they opened the road. The court panel judges considered it necessary to examine the video records during the court hearing after which they again asked the representative of the plaintiff party some questions.
In terms of the credibility of the testimonies of an RA Police officer involved in the case as witness, the defendant party considered it necessary to examine the relevant section of the video recording submitted to the court, but for technical reasons it appeared impossible to ensure it during the court hearing. Defendant T. Siradeghyan’s representative undertook to submit to the court another copy of the video records on another electronic data carrier and motioned to postpone the court hearing.
The court granted the motion and postponed the hearing of this case.
Note that on June 23, 2014 T. Siradeghyan took part in an electricity price hike protest, during which he was arrested by force along with some other 26 protesters and moved to Kentron Division of RA Police Yerevan city Department. There, records were drafted under the administrative proceedings on disobeying police officer’s lawful demand. Then the RA Police submitted a claim to the RA Administrative Court on bringing T. Siradeghyan to administrative responsibility.