Armenian prosecutor's office demands official investigation into police actions against lawyers

The official website of the prosecutor's Office of Armenia has posted the following information:

"On August 16, 2011, the mass media reported that the Board of the Chamber of Advocates decided to apply to the Prosecutor General of Armenia for initiating criminal proceedings on the fact of police officers obstructing the activities of lawyers Vahe Hovsepyan and Stepan Voskanyan. We inform the mass media that the RA Prosecutor General's Office had not received such a complaint by August 17.", Tert.am reported.

RA Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan applied to Chief of the RA Police Alik Sargsyan for an official investigation.

"In its August 16 issue, the Haykakan Zhamanak daily published an article entitled 'Criminal proceedings against policemen'. The article discusses the legality of actions by the police officers at the Central police department."

Specifically, on the basis of the information provided by the Chamber of Advocates, the author of the article points out that the lawyers Vahe Hovsepyan and Stepan Voskanyan were preventing from carrying out their legal activities at the police station.

Since the facts mentioned in the article need to be investigated, the article was sent for an official investigation. "I ask for the results to be reported to the RA Prosecutor General's Office," says the statement by the RA Prosecutor General.


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