HAK activists charged with breaking items
The first instance court of general jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash districts is still leading an investigation into the case that was separated from the main case instigated against the 7 youth Armenian National Congress (HAK) activists.
Kentron police division officer Igor Mesropyan today gave a testimony, which made up the protocol on the arrest and search of the 7 youth activists near Swan Lake in Yerevan on August 9.
We remind that only police officers testify during the investigation into the case separated from the charge against the 7 activists.
Like the previous eyewitnesses, Igor Mesropyan also declared that he didn't remember the details of the case and asked the court to take the testimonies that he had given during the preliminary investigation into account. Based on those testimonies, the youth broke the items belonging to the police officers.
Igor Mesropyan told the court that his friends had told him that the youth had broken items and that he personally hadn't seen that.
The discrepancy between the testimony given eight days after the incident on August 17 and the story in court made Judge Gagik Poghosyan ask the eyewitness-police officer ask about the discrepancy, to which Igor Mesropyan replied that he had bad memory and asked the court to accept the testimony that he had given during the preliminary investigation.
Igor Mesropyan also said he hadn't noticed any bodily injuries on the youth at the time of the arrest, even though the youth claim that the police had beaten them.
Culprit Tigran Arakelyan's (measure of restraint is imprisonment) lawyer Vahe Grigoryan told "A1+"'s journalist that the cameras placed in the hallways of the RA Police building were supposed to have taped the boys' arrest and mentioned that he would demand the video recordings in order to compare that with the police officer's testimony.
