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Friday, 16 October 2009 |
 On October 16, 2009 the trial of Gegham Harutyunyan and Hovhannes Ghukasyan, policemen of Yerevan Department of the Police of Armenia continued at the Court of the First Instance of Kentron and Nork-Marash districts (judge G. Poghsoyan, prosecutor H. Harutyunyan, lawyer A. Tovmasyan). The policemen were accused of Article 309, part 2 of the Criminal Code of Armenia; they abused citizens during the events of March 1.
When the trial started the defense attorney filed a petition to postpone the hearing as one of the defendants Hovhannes Ghukasyan was sick. According to the paper given by the Medical Department he had serious respiratory virus infection. He was not able to attend the trial. The judge granted the petition and the trial was postponed till October 27, 10:00am.
Note that all trials of policemen Gegham Grigoryan and Andranik Manukyan were being postponed because the defense attorney needed time to get acquainted with the case materials.
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In April 2010 Artak Zeynalyan, the assignees’ representative of 9 victims of the events of March 1, 2008 applied to Court with a claim to terminate the inactivity of the Special Investigation Service (SIS). Artak Zeynalyan claims that the SIS did not do anything to reveal the death circumstances of those 9 victims.
