An internal investigation has been ordered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs into the case of police violence against citizens in Alaverdi. The Ministry of Internal Affairs informed Հայերեն.
It should be noted that lawyer Hakob Charoyan had alerted “Pastinfo” that police officers in Alaverdi had used violence against three citizens, used tear gas.
“Yesterday evening, at around 9:00 PM, police officers, patrolmen, with their rank of major, approached the car of a resident of Alaverdi, demanded his documents, which he gave, asked what was in his pocket, and he shouted. Then they told him to take off his pants, and he replied, “You’re not an idiot, why should I take them off...?” That’s how they took him to the police station. Before they reached the police station, they started beating him, about 10 people, his friends were also there, the police chief came out and started hitting the people gathered. "Three people were beaten very badly in the police building, in such a way that ambulances came, and now they feel bad. It's outrageous. A person with the rank of major does something like this with the most vulgar swearing. Milpet personally ordered it, in the special police unit, opposite the police station, on the second and third floors, the police beat them. There are traces of violence on everyone. Imagine, they blew tear gas into their eyes so much that an ambulance came three times, and in the morning that person still couldn't see," said Charoyan, noting that he filed a crime report regarding the torture, as well as that yesterday they applied twice to the Human Rights Defender's staff, because for the first 30 minutes they even prevented him, as a defense attorney, from meeting with the detainees.
