Vardan Harutyunyan addresses the attacks made by the authorities against human rights activists.

Aravot: In your opinion, are the attacks and “disclosures” of H1 against Artur Sakunts and Levon Barseghyan, the representatives of human rights organizations, a manifestation of their inability of the government to deny the activists’ arguments regarding the violations of law or actual crime reports against the activists?

The outcry of the non-governmental organizations against recent and successive suicides in the army caused a split in the ministry of defense.

The Ministry of Defense appears to be in ‘a pre-eruption’ state. Whether something will ‘explode’ is difficult to say, but passions are beginning to rage.  

The objectivity of the investigation in the case of Vladimir Asatryan, who allegedly committed suicide on October 9th at a military base in Martakert, is questioned in the evidence of the internal and preliminary investigations and there are even suspicions of government inactivity.

The father of Arman Yengibaryan who died this summer as a result of being neutralized while being chased by some police officers, appealed to the court demanding they restart the examination of the lawfulness of the police actions towards his son.

Ruben Hayrapetyan Asks HCA-Vanadzor to Answer to the People of Lori Region”Responding to the October 14, 2011 statement of the FFA President, HCA Vanadzor said: the “FFA President was not informed about the lawsuit until recently and after keeping silent for almost a year, he suddenly remembered that HCA Vanadzor had filed lawsuit.”

The hearing of the claim of Sergey Yengibaryan, Arman Yengibaryan’s father, against the SIS SIC Investigator is scheduled for10:30 a.m., on October 26, 2011, at Court of Common Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative Districts (Address: 23/1 Tigran Mets, Judge A. Bektashyan).

On October 21, 2011, the RA Court of Appeals rejected the appeal of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor, whereby the organization requested to reverse the decision of the Lori Region Court of Common Jurisdiction.

H1 (public television) commentator, Gevorg Altunyan, responded to the statement of the human rights activists engaged in the investigation of the death cases in the army. He wrote on his Facebook page: One would think the hearts of Artur Sakunts and Levon Barseghyan really ache for our army and not because of the “grants” but because they consider themselves Armenians, they are true Armenians, and patriots, and “that last week’s material on the First News Service regarding some nonprofit organizations, and specifically regarding Sakunts and Barseghyan was meaningless”.

Yesterday, October 21, 2011, members of the Army in Reality Initiative met with the First Deputy Minister of Defense, Davit Tonoyan on the latter’s initiative. As the member of the initiative group, human rights activist, Artur Sakunts told Henaran.am, the meeting was conducted in an atmosphere of mutual understanding.  

Tavush Region Court of Common Jurisdiction made a decision yesterday to move the trial of Artak Nazaryan’s case to one of the courts in Yerevan.