Wednesday, May 31 2017 21:01

ArmInfo.Today in the northern avenue of the capital of Armenia a well-known public activist, lawyer, director of the Bagin law company Argishti Kiviryan was detained and then escorted to the police station.

Kiviryan told media, police officers came to him in the street  with  a demand of search, to which the lawyer noted that the search is  illegal. After that, the police contacted the superior, on whose  order  Kiviryan was detained, explaining  his behavior with suspicion  of lawyer having  with cold steel. "I told them that I am the  director of a law firm and I know the laws well. But according to   their non-conductive behavior it was clear that they know who I am,  and are executing an order. The only thing I asked for was not to get  close to me as much as possible, I covered my pockets with my hands  and followed them to the station, "the lawyer said. 

Already at the station,  Kiviryan and  lawyers who arrived for  him,  were informed that in the right pocket of the analyst was noticed a  certain object, similar to the cold weapon. After such statement, in  the presence of witnesses, the lawyer emptied his pockets containing   to prove contrary. "Weapon" was a bunch of keys.  "The expression on  their faces showed regret that they did not have time to put in my  pocket something that looked like a knife. Obviously, it was an  order, "he added.

Kiviryan is convinced that today's incident should be viewed from a  global point of view. In his opinion, there are not so many active  figures in Armenia who behave independently from the current regime,  in particular, they are not counterparts of this regime, and which is  why they are trying to isolate such people.  He expressed the  supposition that the motive of today's incident could be a lawsuit  against the head of the Armenian  Police Vladimir Gasprayan and his  deputy Hunan  Poghosyan, as well as his active involvement in public  life, in particular, through social networks. Kiviryan referred to  his publications in social networks, dating back to months before,  where he stated that he did not exclude that he would be a victim of  such treatment: they would come to  him, find a prohibited object, or  make accusations of rape, etc. He called himself a target for the  authorities and did not rule out a repeat of this in the future.

To note, in connection with this case, Armenian Police today spread  extremely illogical and, by and large, ridiculous information  according to which any citizen on the street, including a foreigner,  can be searched, and in case of disobedience, brought to the police  station .

The nonsense  of Police  statement is that the reason of citizen   bringing to the station was suspicion.  Neither facts, nor  operational data in the development of a specific, suspected crime, a  person, namely random suspicion, suddenly born in the heads of street  guards of order! If there were no "political intentions" or other  motivations against the public activist behind the actions of the  Police, then, apparently, the leadership of this structure should  start to clean up its staff from non-professionals and generally  random people, and not justify their illegal  behavior  'Ears' with  references to articles of the Criminal Code. Otherwise, nothing can  be a guarantee that the law-enforcement system of Armenia that is  reforming by means of  European money will not become tempted to  introduce in the country, if necessary, the most common practice of  the "Pinochet regime".