RA Police And Investigation Committee Will Be Complained Of At All I

RA POLICE AND INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE WILL BE COMPLAINED OF AT ALL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

December 25 2014

Chairman of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor Artur Sakunts is
going to present reports to international organizations pertaining
to concealing by the police and investigative committee the cases
of violence against war veterans and other activist citizens. “We
regularly talk about the acts of violence by the police in our reports,
and we are going to present the recent cases to the UN, the Council of
Europe and the European Union”, said Artur Sakunts to Aravot.am. He
believes that the police concealed the acts of violence against the
war veterans by silence. “Media reports on crimes and the materials
that contain information about the crime or offense are enough grounds
to file criminal cases. Regardless of whether there would be written
appeals by war veterans about the crime or not, the investigation
committee should have filed a criminal case at once.

When a reference is made that there is no appeal by the persons,
and the appeal is transferred to the private domain, this more comes
to conceal dangerous crimes from the public view.” According to human
right defender, deputy police chief Levon Yeranosyan’s statement about
cutting off the ears was a public threat. “He publicly threatened
that if someone says anything about Serzh Sargsyan, he would cut
off the ears. Yeranosyan already testifies that he has heard someone
saying something, which upset him. These words were enough to file
a criminal case by SIS. Law enforcement agencies are inactive and
reasoned that the war veterans have not complained. On the other hand,
the war veterans, who are acting as defenders of public interests,
who submit a claim of solving the matter of the citizens and the
country, should have been proactive and submit a complaint; there
is an issue of legal consciousness here, it’s not a private case,
but an act of violence addressed to the public.” He does not consider
the argument of the war veterans that they do not submit a claim to
the police about the crime because they have no confidence in the
law enforcement system justified.

Arpine SIMONYAN