Epress.am News from Armenia
Armenia’s Ministry of Defense on Tuesday issued a statement in which it refuted information disseminated by Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office that a senior officer assaulted conscript Rafik Hovhannisyan in one of the RA Armed Forces’ military bases.
The defense ministry claims that it has investigated the matter and confirmed that the allegations are simply untrue.
According to the ministry’s official version of the incident, Hovhannisyan was prohibited from using his cell phone since “he did not have a right to have a personal phone and could only use the [shared] mobile phone in his unit.”