Those affected as a result of police actions should submit applications (video)
All the citizens, who have been affected as a result of the recent unlawful actions by the police, should submit applications to the Special Investigation Service, human rights organizations and the office of the human rights defender in order to start legal proceedings. According to Chairman of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office Artur Sakunts, almost all the cases of detention of citizens were filmed, consequently there is no need to additionally prove them. “If yesterday 80 people were detained, 80 should submit applications. Now there is a tendency- people are persuaded not to write applications. They say ‘let’s not complain, as we will be affected, but those, who gave command, will avoid responsibility. But yesterday’s behavior of red hats was hooliganism and not behavior of a policeman. Applications must be submitted personally against them.” Human rights activist Ara Ghazaryan says that if a person is invited to interrogation, the interrogation must be carried out in the presence of an advocate. “In any case, if policemen approach a citizen in the street in order to take him in, the citizen should ask the policeman to introduce himself, it is important that the citizen not to use violence against the policeman, and simply ask on what grounds he is being taken in. After all that, if the policemen continue detaining, the citizen should say that it is unlawful.” Ethnographer Hranush Karatyan urges the citizens to submit applications to the HRD office. “And even if they don’t work efficiently, let those cases be collected there; it will become clear for the society how many cases out of applications of 80 people take normal proceedings.”
