Monday, April 29 2024 18:04

ArmInfo. Artur Khachatryan, a member of the "Hayastan" opposition bloc filed a complaint to the Prosecutor General's Office against the police officers who illegally detained him.

"As you probably know, on Friday, April 26, a group of policemen from  the Hrazdan section of the Yerevan-Sevan highway, without making any  legal demands, inflaming and provoking a tense situation, used force  against me, illegally deprived me of my freedom and 4 policemen  accompanied me in a police car (!!!!)to the Hrazdan police department  of the Kotayk region.

The orders were given and the brawl was provoked by the head of the  Kotayk regional police department, Ruben Davtyan. I'm sure he knew  very well that I was an MP. By the way, Davtyan was in civilian  clothes and did not introduce himself," Khachatryan wrote on the  social network.

As the MP notes, on the way he expressed his surprise and  indignation, especially because they do not have the right to detain  a member of the National Assembly, but the police did not react. And  they told him that "he was not detained" already at the police  station. 

"What happened on Friday was the clearest manifestation of a police  state. In fact, a police officer in Armenia puts himself above the  law and gives himself the right to violate the Constitution of the  country. I hope that the crime will not go unpunished. Otherwise, it  will be even more difficult for the current authorities to deny that  police brutality is being committed on their direct orders," the  oppositionist emphasized.

On April 26, in support of Tavush residents, citizens closed the  Yerevan-Sevan highway in the Hrazdan section. A quarrel broke out  between them and the police trying to open the road. The police began  to detain people. Among the latter is MP Artur Khachatryan. After  this process, the police forcefully opened the road.