The Prosecutor General`s Office opened a criminal case on grounds of  torture of a detainee by law enforcement officers

ArmInfo.The Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case on the basis of torture of the detainee by law enforcement officers.

As reported by the Prosecutor General's Office, on June 7, from the  place of detention of the detained persons, the Erebuni department of  the RA Police received a notification that citizen K.M. was admitted  with numerous bruises and abrasions. The night before K.M. argued  with his neighbor, and then used violence against the police who  arrived at the scene. On this fact, on June 7, a criminal case was  initiated under Part 1 of Article 316 of the Criminal Code of  Armenia. On the same day, K.M. explained that he had been injured  while cutting down the branches of a dead tree in the courtyard of  the house, adding that no one had used violence against him or caused  him bodily harm. On June 17, based on materials prepared in  connection with the incident, it was decided to refuse to initiate a  criminal case on the basis of the absence of a crime. Meanwhile, on  August 10, the RA General Prosecutor's Office received a statement  from K.M., in which he said that the injuries found on his body were  the result of violence from the police officers who arrived at the  scene, and he had not previously reported this in exchange on the  promise of the investigator to terminate the criminal proceedings.

As a result of the checks carried out, the Prosecutor General of  Armenia canceled the decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case  on the basis of the absence of corpus delicti, and on the fact of the  obvious torture of a person by a group of persons initiated a  criminal case on the grounds of paragraph 4 of part 2 of Article  309.1 of the RA Criminal Code.