ArmInfo.The Human Rights Defender of Artsakh, Gegham Stepanyan, on the basis of report on beating, has organized discussions on David Simonyan's live broadcast.
According to the Office of the Human Rights Defender of Artsakh, on August 21 David Minasyan posted a Facebook message reporting he had been beaten up by officers of the Askeran police department.
"Guided by the powers vested in the Human Rights Defender in the framework of the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by the Law "On the Human Rights Defender", and guided by Article 15 and part 3 of Article 19 of the above law, the NKR Ombudsman initiated a discussion on the part of the public broadcast by David Minasyan," the NKR Ombudsman's office said in a statement.
It should be noted that earlier the news was disseminated in social networks that the Artsakh blogger was beaten by law enforcement officers after publishing a parody of Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan. In a two-minute video, David Minasyan ridicules the policy of the current authorities of Armenia and Artsakh, accusing them of surrendering the NKR to Azerbaijan.