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COUNCIL OF EUROPE COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS THOMAS HAMMARBERG MET CHIEF OF ARMENIAN POLICE AND PROSECUTOR GENERAL

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2008-03-14 14:54:00

ArmInfo. Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas
Hammarberg met chief of Armenian Police Hayk Harutyunyan and Prosecutor
General Agvan Hovsepyan.

As press-service of the Armenian Police reports, Hammarberg and
Harutyunyan discussed the 1 March events in Yerevan. Harutyunyan
assured that the police did everything possible to prevent mass
disorders and not to allow further worsening of the situation. He also
said that he had already signed an order which lets the delegation
headed by Hammarberg to visit isolation ward and have a talk with
the detained persons.

As press-service of Prosecutor General’s Office reports, the same day
Thomas Hammarberg met Armenian Prosecutor General Agvan Hovsepyan. They
touched on the problems of human rights protection in the conditions
of the state of emergency. Hovsepyan informed Hammarberg that the
president’s order on introduction of the state of emergency does not
foresee any limit of judicial power working and gives no ground for
new detaining and arrests. He also added that all the legal rights
of the accused persons are being observed and several criminal cases
will be transferred to the court soon.