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On December 8, 2015, the RA Court of Criminal Appeals, presided by R. Tadevosyan, resumed examination of the appeal by appellant Susanna Antonyan’s representatives Artur Sakunts and Arayik Zalyan.

The court hearing was attended by appellant S. Antonyan’s representative A. Sakunts and investigator Arsen Geghamyan responsible for the investigation. At the court hearing, presiding judge R. Tadevosyan asked the parties some questions. In particular, he attempted to find out from the investigating agency what actions had been taken to remedy the violations identified by the RA Cassation Court ruling under the case of Arman Antonyan’s death. A. Geghamyan noted that based on the RA Cassation Court ruling, he and a relevant specialist had examined the patients’ register and found no data on persons with hepatitis B.

When asked about the actions taken to reveal any possible omissions by the ambulance staff in their professional duties while rendering first aid to A. Antonyan, A. Geghamyan said that following the RA Cassation Court ruling, they questioned the specialists who had responded to the call, seized the call records and gave a legal assessment to their actions in the rationale part of the decree, with no mention of such actions in the final part. As for detecting and examining A. Antonyan’s outpatient medical card, the investigator noted that as far as he was concerned, the outpatient medical card was a document preceding the patient’s history records that they could not find. The presiding judge asked appellant’s representative A. Sakunts a few questions to clarify the claim submitted to the Court. The Court also tried to find out which actions, according to the appellant party, the investigating agency should have taken to remedy the violations found by the RA Cassation Court in terms of its failure to take urgent investigative actions. A. Sakunts mentioned that during the preliminary investigation, the agency above had taken no steps to investigate the previous violations and stated that in those terms the case should have been submitted to relevant entity to give a legal assessment to the actions of the officials who failed to fulfill their powers properly.

After the questions, the Court declared the examination of the appeal completed, and presiding judge R. Tadevosyan stated that he would announce the ruling on December 9, 2015, at 4 pm. On December 9, 2015, upon considering the appeal, the Court ruled to uphold it partially.

In particular, the Court decided to reverse the General Jurisdiction Court ruling on dismissing the appeal of September 16, 2015 and oblige the investigating agency to remedy the violations identified by the RA Cassation Court and those of the rights of A. Antonyan and his successor.

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