Complaint requiring prosecuting the persons who used violence against Armine Arakelyan was submitted to the RA Prosecutor General’s Office
18:35, January 21, 2017 | News, Own news
Armine Arakelyan’s representative, Arayik Zalyan, lawyer at HCA Vanadzor, appealed the investigative body’s decree on not initiating criminal proceedings on the case of Armine Arakelyan who was taken by the police to psychiatric facilities illegally and by violence and suffered violence there.
Note that by his decree of December 29, 2016, G. Matevosyan, Senior Investigator at Erebuni and Nubarashen administrative districts Investigative Division of the Investigative Department of Yerevan city, RA Investigative Committee, considered the violent actions of the psychiatric facility staff lawful. And in response to the motions of A. Arakelyan’s representative on giving a legal assessment to the actions of the law-enforcement officers and based on that forwarding the case to the RA Special Investigation Service, he stated that the case was submitted to the Prosecutor’s Office of Erebuni and Nubarashen administrative districts to consider the claim on forwarding it to the RA Special Investigation Service.
It should be noted that the former of the 2 motions remained unanswered and the decree on postponing the solution to the latter as mentioned in our previous publications particularly read that “investigative actions to collect evidence are in progress and therefore it will be possible to solve the motion only after establishing all the circumstances mentioned there and taking a number of other necessary investigative actions”.
Nevertheless, it is only now that the Prosecutor’s Office decided to consider the motion. By doing so, the investigative body obviously showed inaction.
As for the questionings under the criminal case, it is noteworthy that the investigative body dealing with contradictory testimonies assessed them unilaterally by considering credible only the ones provided by the psychiatric facility staff and law-enforcement officers.
The aggrieved party complaining against the decree on not initiating criminal prosecution also required to compel the investigating body to decide on giving a legal assessment to the actions of the law-enforcement officers and on forwarding the motion to the RA SIS.