Verdict in April
The first instance court of the Kentron and Nork Marash communities continued to discuss the lawsuit filed by former press speaker for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, member of the committee on international relations of the Armenian National Congress Vladimir Karapetyan.
The plaintiff, the RA Special Investigative Service, was once again not present during the trial. But that didn't bother Judge Armen Melkonyan from continuing the trial.
Karapetyan was complaining to the Special Investigative Service for not instigating a case for the assault by Deputy Commander of the Yerevan patrol service regiment Valeri Osipyan on Tumanyan street on 2008 September 9. Let us remind that Osipyan had approached Karapetyan for no reason, pushed and shoved him and then had taken him to the police division where Karapetyan was kept for nearly half an hour.
Today Karapetyan's advocate Tigran Atanesyan presented the information given by French Armenian journalist Vahe Ter-Minasyan. According to that information, on that day, Karapetyan was simply answering Ter-Minasyan's questions and was not disturbing the peace. Karapetyan told us that it appeared that the criminal case had not been instigated because the case was not investigated thoroughly.
The judge released all documents and materials that had been presented to the court by both sides and decided to release the verdict on April 2 at 5:40 p.m.
