Gevorgyan forced to shoulder murder of ‘March 1’ victim
The police forced former political prisoner Felix Gevorgyan to to take responsibility for one of the 10 deaths, Gevorgyan's legal representative Stepan Voskanyan told journalists on Friday.
The lawyer says his client refused to take over the murder and as a result suffered at the hands of police.
"They pinned a number of thefts and assaults on him and finally extorted false confession from him after torturing him and burning his feet with a scorching rod. Subsequently, a criminal case was instituted against Gevorgyan in the Mashtots district police department," said the lawyer.
Stepan Voskanyan is sure that the charges filed against the former political prisoner are targeted at his father.
"Felix's father, Petros Gevorgyan, is an activist of the opposition Armenian National Congress. By involving Felix in a lawsuit they are trying to suppress his father's political activity," he said.
Felix Gevorgyan was arrested in connection with the violence of March 1, 2008 political uprising in Yerevan and was convicted of illegal possession of a firearm. He was paroled in 2010, but re-arrested on September 29 this year. Gevorgyan is serving his sentence in Nubarashen penitentiary institution.
