“Justice in the case of brutally beating Lt. Col. Ara Mkhitaryan can be restored only after the change of power.” of 168.am said in a conversation with Ara Mkhitaryan’s daughter-in-law, Samvel Mkhitaryan, talking about the reproduction of power in Armenia and the expectations of achieving justice in his son’s case.

Samvel Mkhitaryan despairingly states that it is necessary to wait another 5 years before the government changes in Armenia.

“There is no point in waiting for something now. That time Nikol Pashinyan came here, people said: let’s go, let’s get closer, let’s understand what he thinks about this case, I refused. I’ll go, approach him, what should I do? He has to give a “man’s” word again, then say “my father’s sun”, I’ll do it, but go away and forget.

One million percent Nikol Pashinyan said that the guilty will be punished. It has not been a year since my child’s death, I have met with him twice, once with the governor, deputy, mayor. And the second time, at the governor’s office, in his cabinet, he promised at both meetings that they should sit down and be judged, so where is the trial?” added our interlocutor.

According to him, Nikol Pashinyan removed Trdat Sargsyan from the post of governor and made him a deputy.

“I said a long time ago that they made me not to go close. I asked how Trdat became a deputy, he answered that he does not know, as if he became a deputy without his knowledge.

I don’t know, maybe the lawsuits have been filed, now we have to see what we will do,” emphasized Samvel Mkhitaryan.

To remind, on September 17, 2019, in Yeghegnadzor, after being in a coma for several years as a result of a severe beating, the only convict in the case of lieutenant colonel Ara Mkhitaryan, who died in 2023, Harutyun Grigoryan, the former governor, now the assistant of KP deputy Trdat Sargsyan, was released on parole in February of last year, and then he was imprisoned again. He was charged under Article 112, Part 2, Clause 6 of the Criminal Code (deliberately causing serious harm to health by a group of persons or an organized group), as well as under Article 118 of the same Code (assault). His brother, Zaven Grigoryan, was charged only under Article 112, Part 2, Clause 6.

Both brothers have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them. The name of former governor of Vayots Dzor, Trdat Sargsyan, was also associated with the case.

Officers present at the time of the incident testified that he was present and passive, and they also maintained their testimony during face-to-face questioning. The investigative committee reported that the former governor was not a witness to the dispute that took place on September 17, 2019, and was not at the scene. Despite this, one week after the incident, Trdat Sargsyan resigned from the position of governor of Vayots Dzor, now he is a deputy of the “Civil Agreement” faction of the National Assembly.

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