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On November 28, 2016, the RA Administrative Court, presided by judge A. Dilanyan, announced the judicial act on RA Police v. Vardan Balyan.

The RA Administrative Court ruled to impose on V. Balyan administrative sanction under Article 180.1(15) of the RA Code of Administrative Offences and fine him 70.000 AMD. On the rest part, the claim of the RA Police was rejected.

By its ruling, the Court found that the comprehensive, thorough and impartial examination and evaluation of all the evidence under the case did not prove the actual fact that the defendant failed in any of his duties under the RA Law on Freedom of Assembly and therefore there was no objective aspect of the offense under Article 180.1(11) of the RA Code of Administrative Offences. Thus, the Court found that the claim was groundless in terms of imposing administrative sanctions on V. Balyan under Article 180.1(11) of the RA Code of Administrative Offences and was subject to rejection.

Note that on March 24, 2016 V. Balyan took part in the assembly held before the examination of the motion on extending Gevorg Safaryan’s detention. During the assembly, some of its participants blocked the street by lying on the traffic sector of Mashtots Avenue and chaining themselves to the asphalt. Then they were apprehended by force and taken to Kentron Division of the RA Police Yerevan City Department, where administrative proceedings were initiated against them based on their failure to fulfill their duties of assembly participants and obey the legal orders of the police to ensure the peaceful and normal course of the assembly. By its claim submitted to the Court, the RA Police demanded that administrative sanction was imposed on V. Balyan under Articles 180.1(11 and 15) of the RA Code of Administrative Offences.

V. Balyan’s interests are protected by Tatevik Siradeghyan, laywer at Yerevan Office of HCA Vanadzor.