The case of Arman Antonyan, who died from Hepatitis B is at the RA Court of First Instance
12:52, October 21, 2013 | News | Right to Life
The case of Vanadzor resident Arman Antonyan, who died from viral Hepatitis B in 2010 is still undergoing judicial proceedings. Arman Antonyan’s mother doesn’t stop struggling in order to identify and subject to liability the perpetrators of her son’s death.
The death cause of Arman Antonyan’s was acute liver failure triggered by fulminant nature of viral Hepatitis B and onset of liver necrosis.
As his mother mentions, her 29-year-old son was under the control of sex therapist Artur Baghdasaryan from the City Rehabilitation Center for Sexual Pathology and later underwent a treatment course there. “Right after one month my child’s health state aggravated, he couldn’t move, his fever ran 40 °C and his complexion turned yellow. We called Ambulance a couple of times, they came twice and told there was no need to worry since it was merely a state of influenza. The next day on March 31, my child’s body swelled and his fever remained high, so we took him to hospital”, shares the mother regarding the state of his son’s last days who died at the age of 29. She continues claiming that her son got infected during treatment, prior to that her son had been completely healthy. Without finding out from where her son acquired the aforementioned disease and without specifying how he contracted the infection, the preliminary investigation body took a decision to stop the proceedings of the criminal case, which according to her, isn’t in line with the law”, the mother revealed about her son’s death circumstances in a talk with aravot.am.
On June 23, 2010 with the features of improper implementation or failure to implement their processional duties by medical support and care providers a criminal case was filed and taken into proceedings, which, however, after half a year was closed without results due to absence of criminality. Several times in a row this case was taken into trial and was closed due to various reasons.
Thus, three years in succession the investigation of Arman Antonyan’s death case didn’t give any results and no perpetrators were identified.
With a requaest to help finding the perpetrators of her son’s death Arman Antonyan’s mother turned to Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor. By undertaking the representation of the victim’s mother, Chairman of HCAV Artur Sakunts sent applications to various court instances by resuming the case trial and following its progression.
The court hearing which was tried at the RA Cassation Court on February 15, 2013 seemed to bring in progress over the current case by adopting that there was a breach of Arman Antonyan’s right to life, besides, the investigation wasn’t made accessible to the family members of the deceased. Later the Court abrogated the decisions taken by the lower courts and sent the case to the Court of Common Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash Administrative districts of Yerevan city.
According to the submitted claim, applicant Susanna Antonyan requested quashing March 30, 2012 decision taken by the RA Police Central Investigation Department SIC investigator A. Poghosyan. On September 12, 2013 the Court of Common Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash Administrative districts of Yerevan city adopted a ruling, whereby partially satisfied the claim submitted by applicant Susanna Antonyan. In fact, upon making its decision the court didn’t rely on the ruling taken by the RA Cassation Court previously.