2024-04-06 06:54:32
NA deputy Taguhi Tovmasyan wrote on her Facebook page that the RA prosecutor’s office informed that criminal proceedings were initiated based on her application. He elaborated:
On the occasion of the violent arrest of Narek Samsonyan, the host of the “Imnemnim” podcast, I sent an application to the RA Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan, demanding a criminal legal assessment of the arrest process accompanied by degrading footage and violence.
Today I received a reply letter that the head of the Department of Crimes Against the State Government of the Prosecutor’s Office addressed my application to the head of the Department of Torture and Abuse of Powers by Officials, Head of the Department of Crimes of Torture and Abuse of Power by Officials Yu. Ivanyan. The prosecutor’s office has sent my letter to the investigative committee for consideration, “To resolve the issue of initiating criminal proceedings.”
Shortly before the RA Prosecutor’s Office, I was informed that based on my application, proceedings were initiated in the RA Investigative Committee on the occasion of Narek Samsoyan’s forced arrest. I will be consistent until the end of the case, because even the most unacceptable word uttered during the podcast cannot be confused with hooliganism and arrest the presenters as hooligans. Moreover, to detain with such brutal force.”