Notorious judge entrused with new case
As reported earlier, on August 23, 2016, the General Jurisdiction Court of Shirak marz (region) announced at an outgoing court hearing the judgment on the Avetisyans family murder case by which Valery Permyakov, a serviceman at the Russian military base № 102 located in Gyumri, accused of the murder of the seven-member family, was sentenced to life imprisonment. The legal successors of the victims submitted an appeal to a higher court. The appeal also pointed to the non-fulfillment by Russian Federation and the Republic of Armenia of their positive obligations, by which they were obliged to prevent the danger threatening the life of the Avetisyans family members, as well as to a number of shortcomings in the investigation. These and other violations were also alerted during the trial examination of the case; a number of motions were submitted, but the court did not process them and dismissed them. The Criminal Court of Appeal is set to hear the appeal on November 10. The judge in the case is notorious M. Arghamanyan who was involved in the list of officials’ involved in iniquities.
