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Authorities Ignoring Lawyer’s Motion Over Death of Armavir Prisoner

The authority conducting the proceedings into the death of Armavir prison inmate Anzor Karapetyan on January 4, 2016, has for months been disregarding a motion filed by his relatives’ lawyer with a request to determine whether the penitentiary had performed all its statutory obligations to preserve Karapetyan’s life when in prison.

“The motion was filed back in September, but I have yet to receive any response. I sent another appeal on Wednesday to be informed of the steps the authorities have taken to date,” lawyer Ani Chatinyan said in a conversation with Epress.am today.

Anzor Karapetyan, as previously reported, participated in a fight on December 21, 2015 in the Armenian town of Armavir. He then turned himself in to the police and was arrested on the spot. On January 3, a court ruled to send Karapetyan to Armavir jail. The next day, prison officials handed the young man’s body over to his relatives, saying that he had committed suicide.