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VOSKERCHYAN TOLD ABOUT HIS SUFFERINGS

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Advocate Stepan Voskanyan who presents the interests of detainee Grigor Voskerchyan announced today that his defendant had been severely beaten in the “Nubarashen” penitentiary institution on December 23.


Today the office of the Human Rights Defender issued a statement which runs, “On December 22 detainee Gevorg Manukyan’s Advocate Inessa Petrosyan reported that her defendant had been beaten in the Nubarashen penitentiary. She also stated she was denied a meeting with her defendant.”


Following the Ombudsman’s instruction the office representatives visited the penitentiary and met pre-trial detainees Grigor Voskerchyan and Gevorg Manukyan.


During a meeting with Ombudsman’s representatives Voskerchyan said that at about 10.00, December 23, 2008, on-duty Tatul Hakobyan intruded into his cell with a few other people and began searching the cell.


After inquiring about Voskerchyan’s indictment one of them slapped in his face and kicked him. The hard blows worsened Voskerchyan’s state therefore he was late for a December 23 court sitting.


Later Detainee Gevorg Manukyan informed the Ombudsman’s Office that he had already met his advocate. He refused to comment on the beating unless he consulted with Inessa Petrosyan.


“RA Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan condemns the recent violence against pre-trail detainee Voskerchyan and considers it a pressure against a prisoner at the bar. Relying on the information submitted by Voskerchyan the Ombudsman has requested to the Ministry of Justice to start a probe into the case of violence and punish the wrongdoers,” holds the statement.