YEREVAN, DECEMBER 4, NOYAN TAPAN. The Ombudsman of the RA Armen Harutyunian sent a letter to the chief of the RA Police, proposing that an internal investigation should be conducted and measures be taken to call to account those guilty of subjecting Artavazd S., a detainee, to torture. According to information received from the RA Ombudsman Office, the working group, which was was set up by instructions of the RA Ombudsman, on November 29 went to "Hospital for Convicts" penitentiary institution of the RA ministry of justice with the aim of checking an alarm call about torture - just at the moment when the detainee Artavazd S. was being taken to the Erebuni medical center: by permission of doctors, they talked with Artavazd S. in the ambulance car. The detainee told the working group members that on November 13 he was taken to police by employees of the RA Police Main Department of Fight against Organized Crime, who treated him cruelly. In the words of Artavazd S., during "the time he spent there", employees of the indicated department delivered blows on various parts of his body, including the spine, as a result of which some ribs were broken. Doctors said that Artavazd S. was taken to hospital with the diagnos "brain stroke". In his letter, the RA ombudsman asked the police chief to inform him in writing about measures taken in connection with this case.

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