{"id":284112,"date":"2018-03-22T14:15:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T10:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=284112"},"modified":"2018-03-22T14:15:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T10:15:25","slug":"armenian-conscript-was-not-in-mental-state-to-commit-suicide-expert-concludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/03\/22\/armenian-conscript-was-not-in-mental-state-to-commit-suicide-expert-concludes.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Conscript Was Not in Mental State To Commit Suicide, Expert Concludes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hovhannes Petrosyan, a soldier who April 25, 2016, died of a gunshot head wound a military unit in Ijevan, was not in mental state that would lead to suicide, the Helsinki Citizens\u2019 Assembly Vanadzor office reports, citing the results of a forensic psychology examination.<\/p>\n<p>HCAV recalls that Vachagan Hayrapetyan, Petrosyan\u2019s commander and a key witness in the case, <span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/10\/19\/essential-witness-in-armenian-conscripts-death-dies-in-crash.html\">died in a road accident<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on October 10, 2016, a few days after a face-to-face identification with Vachagan Petrosyan, the dead serviceman\u2019s father and legal successor. \u201cHayrapetyan possessed information that was of value in the case and had talked about it in his testimony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The forensic expert also excluded any cause-effect link between the actions of Vachagan Hayrapetyan and Petrosyan&#8217;s fellow servicemen and his alleged suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, Petrosyan was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in the back of a GAZ-66 military truck in one of the front-line units of the country&#8217;s Defense Ministry; a criminal case was subsequently opened under article 110 of the Armenian Criminal Code &#8211; incitement to suicide.<\/p>\n<p>According to an earlier report by Safesoldier.am, a few days before the incident, the conscript had told his father about the military unit\u2019s officers&#8217; practice of stealing gasoline, which he had tried to stop, ending up in a conflict with them.<\/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>The forensic expert also excluded any cause-effect link between the actions of Vachagan Hayrapetyan and Petrosyan&#8217;s fellow servicemen and his alleged suicide&#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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[65984],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284112"}],"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=284112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}