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Armenian Activist Vardges Gaspari Points Out Police Errors in Summons

Civil society activist Vardges Gaspari, formerly imprisoned for his political views, received a police summons that doesn't state under what status he is being called for questioning. On his personal Facebook page [AM], Gaspari posted his reply to investigator N. D. Muradyan with the Shengavit Division of the Main Investigation Department of the Armenian Police.

"Regarding the summons you sent without a number and without a date, with which you call me for questioning in criminal case no. 11127614, I declare that Article 205 of the RA Criminal Procedure Code Article you mention requires [you] to state the status with which a person is summoned for interrogation.

"For 5 years I have been reminding and teaching you these basic things… How stupid and dull can you be not to understand that?" Gaspari wrote.  

The absence of basic intelligence and perceptivity, he said, is characteristic of police employees. Elementary concepts are incomprehensible to them, and they display typical criminal underworld behavior, willfulness, and stubbornness. 

Wanting to bring the actions of the police to the legal arena, Gaspari says that he is sending back the summons, asking them to complete the "status of the person called for questioning" field that he marked with a red pen and only then send him the summons. 

In conversation with Epress.am, Gaspari said he assumes that he is being summoned because of Administrative Court Judge Ruzanna Hakobyan's claim. The activist said that at one of the court sessions, he very loudly demanded the "murderers" of March 1 to be brought to justice, which the judge deemed "hooliganism" and contempt of the court, petitioning to launch a criminal case against him.