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On October 29, 2015, the RA Criminal Court of Appeal, presided by judge R. Tadevosyan, examined the appeal of Artur Sakunts and Arayik Zalyan, legal representatives of appellant Susanna Antonyan. The appeal required to annul the ruling of the General Jurisdiction Court of Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts of Yerevan, RA, which dismissed the appeal against the ruling to discontinue the criminal proceedings on the death of Arman Antonyan. The hearing was attended by appellant’s representative A. Sakunts and investigator Arsen Geghamyan, responsible for the investigation. The present parties did not object to holding the hearing without the other legal representative of the appellant and the supervising prosecutor. Considering the opinion of the parties and the fact that the absent parties had been duly notified of the hearing, the Court decided to proceed with the judicial verification in their absence. The presiding judge announced the judicial act of the lower court and presented the nature of the appeal. Then he gave the floor to A. Sakunts to present the grounds and substantiation of the appeal. The latter provided a number of grounds on inefficient examination of violation of A. Antonyan’s right to life during the preliminary investigation and failure to lift the violations identified in the ruling of the RA Cassation Court. A. Sakunts requested the Court to reverse the judicial act of the lower court, pass another judicial act and send the case to preliminary investigation. A. Geghamyan, investigator responsible for the proceedings, objected to the appeal. He stated that the grounds of the appeal did not derive from the case materials. He also added that different versions were put forward during the investigation and a comprehensive investigation was carried out. Of course, he admitted that the 1-year-delayed response to the inquiry submitted to the RA Ministry of Health constituted a flow. However, he also noted that the findings obtained were not essential for the outcome of the case. In response to the judge’s questions, A. Geghamyan said that the medical records were handed over to patients, without any written documentation thereof. The judge also asked about the actions taken after the ruling of the RA Cassation Court. In response to this question, the investigator said that the attendant doctor of A. Antonyan and his nurse were questioned, and another commission forensic examination was assigned. At the same time, the investigator submitted to the Court the preliminary investigation files. To get familiar with the files, the Court found it necessary to adjourn the hearing and assign it in another court series. Hence, the examination of the appeal will be resumed on November 10, 2015, at 2 pm.

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