JHANGIRYAN WAS ILLEGALLY ARRESTED/VIDEO/

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During today’s two and a half hour trial, defendant’s attorney Lusine Sahakyan and former Deputy Prosecutor General Gagik Jhangiryan did everything they could to find out from First Deputy Head of the General Department for the Fight against Organized Crime of the Police of RA (6th department) Karen Babakekhyan the reason for arresting Gagik Jhangiryan and in the end it turned out that there was no law for that.

“As is already known, police officers must obey the law and may charge someone with article 316 if the given person doesn’t obey them. We were trying to find out which law the police obeyed. Twenty-two police officers were questioned. They tried to deny the blame and claimed that they had received an order. During these two trials Babakekhyan had a chance to finally state the law. We already knew that there was no law and he confirmed that during the trials,” said Lusine Sahakyan.

During the inquiry, Karen Babakekhyan was making references from time to time to either the law on “Operative investigation”, or the law on “Criminal Justice” or the law on “Police”. In one case, he said that the person was arrested, and then he said that Gagik Jhangiryan was arrested for weapons and then showing resistance. It was also noted that Vardan Jhangiryan had shown resistance.

“This goes to show that they simply wanted to arrest Gagik Jhangiryan and did just that. He presented a very important fact that even deputy head of the 6th department can present. Then, he made up the story of Gagik Jhangiryan showing resistance at the Argavand intersection and then changed the testimony completely. The most important thing was that he mentioned that Gagik Jhangiryan had warned the police that his brother had serious back problems and asked them to not hurt his brother. With this he affirmed the claim of Gagik and Vardan Jhangiryan that Gagik had asked them not to hurt Vardan. He also denied Vardan’s charge according to which he has shown resistance. The police knew about his back problems and threw him to the ground,” said Lusine Sahakyan.

There are two supporting facts for the arrest, but none of them were present during Gagik Jhangiryan’s arrest. Besides that, it became clear once again that the officers of the 6th department had not received the consent of the prosecutor general’s office. According to the law on “Prosecutors”, prosecutors can’t be arrested without the consent of the Prosecutor General.

Gagik Jhangiryan had this to say to that: “This showed us once again that the police have committed illegal actions. Since the case started with illegal actions, not even one legal evidence has value. This means that Gagik Jhangiryan has been in jail illegally for 11 months of which 5 months were because of you [the judge-ed.].”

The next trial is scheduled for January 30 at 2 p.m.