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Police hit Areg Kyureghyan more than 100 times: hetq

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Areg Kyureghyan, a member of the Sasna Dzrer group that seized a Yerevan police building last July, was beaten by police soon after his trial devolved into chaos and was halted earlier today, this according to his lawyer Moushegh Shoushanyan, reports hetq. The attorney says that he visited Kyureghyan at the Nubarashen Penitentiary after the trial and that his client told him that police hit him more than 100 times. Kyureghyan and police got into a shouting match at the trial when cops prevented him from passing a written note to his lawyer. Read more on the source website