Witnesses are taken to the NSS
According to our sources, an action is commenced under Article 341 of Armenia's Criminal Code (state of the evidence under compulsion by the prosecutor, judge and inspector).
The information was confirmed by the spokesperson for the prosecutor-general's office, Sona Truzyan.
The suit is instituted at the National Security Service (NSS), and two witnesses for the case of MP Sasun Michaelyan, Edik Khachatryan and Arsen Mkrtchyan, have furnished testimony.
Let's remind that Edik Khachatryan and Arsen Mkrtchyan, along with another witness Yasha Melkonyan, announced that the police had used "alien methods".
Yasha Melkonyan went further in his testimony and said that he had been subjected to violence by Mr. Markosyan, deputy head of the police Hrazdan division.
After Melkonyan's announcement, Prosecutor Koryun Piloyan had motioned the court to file a suit under Article 341. The suit was filed, and the Special Investigation Service was instructed with the probe into the case.
Witnesses Edik Khachatryan and Arsen Mkrtchyan had announced that in the course of preliminary investigation alien methods had been applied.
Cases have been instituted in the NSS on basis of the witnesses' announcement.
The Prosecutor General has assigned to take drastic measures to clarify all the details and to bring all wrongdoers to justice.
According to our verified sources, today police visited witnesses Romik Shahinyan and Henrik Hartenyan in order to bring them to court. None of them was at home.
