{"id":254585,"date":"2014-06-12T13:26:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T09:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=254585"},"modified":"2014-06-12T13:49:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T09:49:03","slug":"masked-men-beat-me-for-4-hours-defendant-in-gang-case-wrote-before-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/12\/masked-men-beat-me-for-4-hours-defendant-in-gang-case-wrote-before-his-death.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Masked Men Beat Me for 4 Hours,&#8221; Defendant in Gang Case Wrote Before His Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Arsen Beginyan, the prosecutor in the &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/27\/gang-case-trial-postponed-indefinitely.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>gang case<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,&quot; wants to attach a letter by one of the accused, Arman Dallakyan, who died on September 7, 2013, to the case materials, attorney Stepan Voskanyan informed Epress.am today.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn his letter, Dallakyan wrote: &quot;I made a confession upon being pressured and beaten by masked police employees of the 6th division. I did not commit assault; I did not have drugs in my possession. Police removed from my pocket a bag of drugs that wasn&#39;t mine. I didn&#39;t want to sign the protocol &mdash; it wasn&#39;t mine. I denied that I committed assault, but they said it&#39;s all the same, I&#39;m going to stand trial for drug possession. Masked me threw me to the ground and began to beat me. They beat me for around 4 hours, taking turns. I thought they would kill me, [and] that&#39;s why I wrote what the investigator said.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe letter was read in the Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork Marash Administrative Districts of Yerevan on June 11 during the trial.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOther defendants in the case have also repeatedly said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2013\/10\/15\/detainees-in-gang-case-say-they-are-being-tortured-in-prison.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>they were tortured<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, in this case, 5 people are arrested and accused of committing burglary in September 2011. The accused (and their lawyers) claim that they are being tortured and testimony obtained under torture shouldn&#39;t be admitted in court and become grounds for prosecution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I made a confession upon being pressured and beaten by masked police employees of the 6th division. I did not commit assault; I did not have drugs in&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54353,50680,53876,35600,14527],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}