{"id":271082,"date":"2016-02-16T15:17:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T11:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=271082"},"modified":"2016-02-16T15:17:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T11:17:28","slug":"yerevan-court-turns-away-appeal-seeking-to-reopen-proceedings-against-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/02\/16\/yerevan-court-turns-away-appeal-seeking-to-reopen-proceedings-against-police-officers.html","title":{"rendered":"Yerevan Court Turns Away Appeal Seeking to Reopen Proceedings Against Police Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun district court, presided over by judge Rubik Mkhitaryan, denied on Tuesday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/11\/02\/officials-see-no-grounds-to-prosecute-armenian-police-officers-who-used-forced-on-protesting-parents.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">the appeal<\/span><\/a> filed by Nana Muradyan and Irina Ghazaryan, mothers of two Armenian soldiers who died during military service in 2010, that sought to overturn investigator&#39;s decision not to initiate criminal proceedings against police officers who used excessive force against the women in spring, 2015.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpeaking to Epress.am, the plaintiffs&#39; lawyer, Haykuhi Harutyunyan, said it was noteworthy that the judge failed to provide any justification for the rejection. The mothers, for their part, announced their intention to re-submit their complaint.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/05\/13\/mothers-of-dead-soldiers-attacked-and-provoked-by-armenian-police-video.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">On May 13, 2015<\/span><\/a>, law enforcement officers forcibly removed five demonstrating parents, including the plaintiffs, from the sidewalk in front of the Armenian presidential residence. As a result of the police&#39;s violent actions, the two women sustained physical injuries; a criminal case was initiated and subsequently terminated by Armenian Special Investigation Service (SIS).<\/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>Speaking to Epress.am, the plaintiffs&#8217; lawyer, Haykuhi Harutyunyan, said it was noteworthy that the judge failed to provide any justification for the rejection. The mothers, for their part, announced their intention to&#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":271076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10268,10329,12009,10330,50558,36189,18877,36188],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271082"}],"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=271082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}