THE COURT HEARING ON THE CASE OF A PERSON ATTACKED BY A GROUP OF PERSONS WAS POSTPONED AGAIN

On November 3, 2021, in the Avan-Nor Nork  residence of the Court of  First Instance of the city of Yerevan, 

presided  over  by Judge Vardan Grigoryan, the court hearing on the case of A.A. beaten by G.M. and S.H. was held. 

This was the third court hearing on the case, to which the defendants did not appear again. 

Attorney Ara Gharagyozyan expressed a position to detain the defendants. 

A decision was made by the court to detain the defendants, the court hearing was postponed. 

The next court hearing is scheduled on December 29, 2021 at 10:00. 

 

Pre-history of the case: 

On July 15, 2020, RA citizen A.A. applied to New Generation Humanitarian NGO. The latter informed that on June 3, 2020, he and his friends were in their country house in Yerevan. A group of people attacked A.A.’s house, demanding with bad language that A.A, and his friends left the house, in connection with the latter’s alleged sexual orientation and gender identity. An argument started, after which those people hit on different parts of A.A.’s body with their hands, feet and stones, causing bodily injuries around the head. 

On the same day, A.A. submitted a report on the incident to the Police of the Republic of Armenia. On June 29, 2020, by the decision of the senior investigator of Shengavit division of the RA police, a criminal case was launched based on the materials prepared by A.A.’s reportunder the 117 Article of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, and the case was sent to the Shengavit Investigative Division of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia for preliminary investigation. On July 6, 2020 a decision about initiating proceedings in the case was made by the Shengavit Investigative Division of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia. 

 

 A.A. was recognized victim of the case ։ Ara Gharagyozyan, attorney of New Generation Humanitarian NGO was involved in the case. A.A. was recognized as victim of the case. 

 

On April 6, 2021 the preliminary investigation of the case ended and the case was sent to court.  

On April 15, 2021 V.L. Grigoryan, the judge of the Court of General Jurisdiction of First Instance of Yerevan city, Republic of Armenia, made a decision about setting the case for hearing.  

 

On October 14, 2020 a forensic psychological examination was assigned to one of the accused – G.S. According to the forensic medical report received on March 3, 2021 the accused is considered partially sane and is subject to criminal liability.