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Serviceman brutally beaten up by officer
The Helsinki Citizens' Assembly (HCA) Vanadzor Office submitted a claim with the RA Military Prosecutor's Office regarding ill-treatment of a conscript.
According to the, R. Hovhannisyan applied to their office seeking protection for his son's rights. The desperate father said that seeing a phone in his son's hands, one of the officers of the battalion snatched it and forced the boy to do push-ups.
The boy, however, refused to obey the officer. As a result, he was brutally beaten and subjected to inhumane treatment.
The HCA Vanadzor Office calls on the military prosecutor's office to launch criminal proceedings and inform the organization about its decision.
The copy of the claim has been sent to the Ministry of Defense.
