YEREVAN, JULY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. The Court of First Instance of the Kentron and Nork-Marash communities in Yerevan with Zhora Vardanian at the head pronounced the judgement of the case filed against four policemen charged with perjury and abuse of official powers on July 3. Marat Manukian, the section leader of the Protection Division of the Guard Department to the Police Central Department, was sentenced to three years imprisonment, and policemen Hayrapet Giulamirian was condemned to two years imprisonment. Policemen Vardan Gabrielian and Arman Khachatrian were sentenced to two and three years of conventional imprisonment. Diana Simonian, the cashier of the Alen-Elen nightclub, was also sentenced to one-year conventional imprisonment. According to the materials of the case, M. Manukian and A. Khachatrian, who were on duty in the Alen-Elen nightclub in Yerevan on June 30, 2006 on the illegal orders of the club's manager Vl. Bejanian, forcedly took a customer of the club, A. Babum, a citizen of the Islamic Republic of Iran, to the police sentry post located in the club for allegedly entering the club with a knife. Vl. Bejanian interrogated and beat Babum there, inflicting relatively serious injuries upon him. Then the policemen gave false testimony against A. Babum. It is also mentioned in the charge that on July 5, 2006 H. Gyulamirian started an ungrounded argument with the same club customer Tigran Galstian, then beat him with M. Manukian causing minor injuries. Vardan Gabrielian, the next defendant in the case, wrote a forged report and gave false testimony against T. Galstian.

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