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Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor carries on protecting the rights of victim’s successor Lusine Parsadanyan under the case of young  Elen Parsadanyan’s death. The agency responsible for the investigation under this criminal case investigated for years committed a number of procedural violations that in their turn led to the violation of the rights and freedoms of the victim’s successor.

Perhaps, the latest violation was as follows. After getting familiar with the opinion of the forensic examination assigned by the agency responsible for the investigation during the investigation of the criminal case, the aggrieved party expressed disagreement and stated that it would submit a written motion on this account. Despite this statement, on the same day the investigator decreed to discontinue the criminal proceedings by depriving the aggrieved party from the possibility to express its disagreement with the expert opinion by a written motion.

Considering that such a move on the part of the investigator violated the rights and freedoms of the aggrieved party, the Court ruled to compel the agency responsible for the proceedings to eliminate the violations of the person’s rights and freedoms and send the case for re-examination.

The opinion of another forensic expert examination assigned on the basis of the motion of the aggrieved party submitted during the re-examination of the case stated in support of the medical personnel of Arabkir Medical Center that E. Parsadanyan’s death was caused by a congenital disease. The aggrieved party disagreed with this expert opinion as well and submitted a motion requiring to question the expert responsible for the additional commission expert examination and to carry out investigative actions to find out why the child’s congenital disease mentioned in the forensic examination had not been detected earlier.

The motion was granted only as for its first part.