Osipyan on release of Sasna Tsrer group members: Justice in Armenia  is implemented by the judicial system

ArmInfo. In Armenia, justice is exercised by the judicial system, and one should ask it all the questions, the Armenian Police Chief Valery Osipyan reacted to the  journalists' request to assess the situation around the members of  the Sasna Tsrer group, who captured the police regiment in July 2016,  the last members of which were released the other day.

Osipyan noted that, despite the fact that he had direct relation to  those events, because he was taken hostage by the group,  nevertheless, all judgments about the lawfulness of actions should be  provided by the judicial system. Osipyan also said that he was  interrogated during the investigation, but was not invited to court,  but if invited, he is ready to repeat what was said earlier. "I was  held hostage, this is unequivocal, and my colleagues were also  captured. As for the change in the measure of restraint, the court  should decide it.  "There are defendants who, we can consider have  served their sentence for two years. "As for the rest, we'll talk  later," Osipyan said.

Asked to comment on Pavel Manukyan's statement that the perpetrator  of the death of the policeman was not Bilyan, as the investigation  believes, but Grigoryan, Osipyan noted that he is not informed, since  he was in the regiment after the murder.

To recall,  on July 17, 2016, the Sasna Tsrer group seized the  regiment of the Armenian Police Service in the administrative  district of Erebuni in Yerevan, demanding the release of coordinator  of the civil initiative "Constituent Parliament" Zhirayr Sefilyan,  who was under arrest on charges of illegally purchasing and storing  weapons . The group folded their arms and surrendered to the  authorities on July 31. All this time protests were held in the  capital in support of the members of the group. In the course of  these events, 3 law enforcers were killed and 6 others were injured.  After Nikol Pashinyan came to power, all members of the group were  released.