Soldier beaten brutally by military police, claim activists

The Armenian youth group No Silence has issued a statement, voicing concerns over military police officers’ misconduct against soldiers.

The activists claim that several soldiers taken to the military police department of the Yerevan garrison on March 14 were beaten brutally there because of a scuffle that broke out last month.

One of the soldiers, Arsen, who suffered most (he is claimed to have received facial injuries), was taken back to the military unit after being beaten and subsequently granted a leave, on condition that he would not tell anyone about the incident, the group says.

Citing its sources, it claims further that the chief of the military police, Ruben Nersisyan, the head of the Criminal Investigation Department, H. Vopanyan, and an employee of the Investigative Department A. Avagyan, were directly involved in the act of hooliganism.  Read more... (211 words)

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