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  • According To Aghvan Hovsepian, Fact-Finding Group's Activity Is Firs

    ACCORDING TO AGHVAN HOVSEPIAN, FACT-FINDING GROUP'S ACTIVITY IS FIRST OF ALL BENEFICIAL FOR PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE

    Noyan Tapan
    Oct 31, 2008

    YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, NOYAN TAPAN. Issues regarding court and
    legal reforms, process of fulfillment of Resolutions N 1609 and
    1620 of PACE Monitoring Commission, Prosecutor's Office-NA Ad-hoc
    Committee-fact-finding group cooperation were discussed at the
    October 30 meeting of RA Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepian with
    newly appointed Special Representative of Council of Europe Secretary
    General to Armenia Silvia Zehe.

    According to the Press Service of the RA Prosecutor General's Office,
    A. Hovsepian in general outline presented the results of preliminary
    investigation of the criminal case filed in connection with the mass
    disorders occurred on March 1-2 in Yerevan. He said that 89 criminal
    cases on 104 persons have been sent to the court during the 6 months
    of preliminary investigation, and nearly 10 out of them are at the
    stage of hearing at present: judicial acts have been already made on
    the other criminal cases. Seven people are under preliminary arrest
    at present, the preliminary investigation on their part finished on
    September 5, and from September 10 they and their lawyers were given
    a possibility to get acquainted with the materials of the criminal
    case. Only one defendant finished getting acquainted with the materials
    of the criminal case within the past 50 days.

    Highly estimating the formation of the fact-finding group, A. Hovsepian
    said that group's activity is first of all beneficial for the
    Prosecutor's Office, and the latter will be only thankful if the
    fact-finding group manages to get new facts, which will contribute
    to clarification of the circumstances of registered 10 cases of
    death and 250 people's receiving bodily injuries and disclosure of
    those guilty, giving an estimation to legality and proportionality of
    policemen's actions, revelation of all participants of the disorders,
    their executors, inciters, assistants, and organizers.
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