Ankara Excuses to the Armenian Tyranny Will Lead Us from Erdogan to Vaspurakan

- If Turkey should be further democratized and harmonized with Europe, then why should Turkey open its borders to Armenia - a criminal tyranny denounced as such by the HRW in a lengthy and devastating Report?

In eight earlier articles entitled "Turkey’s Ongoing Colonization: Only Reason for Recognizing Racist Armenian Tyranny" (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/94451), "Devastating HRW on Armenian Tyranny Imposes Cancellation of the Gul – Erdogan Pro-Armenian Policy" (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/94453), "Recognition of the Armenian Tyranny by Ankara Equals Colonization of Turkey by Freemasonic EU – US" (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/94492), "Turkish – Armenian Rapprochement to Be Linked on Human Rights Conditions’ Improvement in Armenia" (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/94496), "Turkey Cannot Open Its Borders to the Heinous, Rancorous Tyranny of Armenia" (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/94498), "Armenia: A Tyranny to be Kept Isolated by Turkey on Poor Human Rights Record"
(http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/94504), "Devastating HRW Report on Armenia Forces Erdogan and Gul to Abandon Failed Policy of Rapprochement" (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/94507), and "Opening the Armenian Border, Gul and Erdogan Guarantee Turkey’s Dismemberment in No-Time" (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/94515), I republished parts of the devastating HRW Report (the HRW Press Release issued on the occasion of the Report publication a few days ago, the Contents, the Summary, the Methodology, the Background, the 2008 Presidential Elections, the Post-Election Protests and Violence, and the first part of the HRW Report’s chapter on Ill-treatment and Torture).

I called for a master coup against the unrepresentative Erdogan gang of high traitors, freemasons and besotted pseudo-Islamists, who implement the Anti-Turkish colonial agenda of England and France; in fact, the colonial powers imposed on the Freemasonic pupils Gul and Erdogan the Turkish – Armenian rapprochement.

In the present article, I republish the remaining parts of the HRW Report’s chapter on Ill-treatment and Torture. In forthcoming articles, I will complete the republication of the devastating HRW Report on the Armenian Tyranny.

VI. Ill-treatment and Torture
http://www.hrw.org/en/node/80933/section/8

Lack of opportunity to inform family members and access a lawyer of one's choice

Most of those who were arrested on March 1 where first taken to Kentron police station and then distributed among various district police stations within Yerevan.[206] Most detainees were not allowed to make a phone call and inform their relatives about their places of detention, and their right to engage a lawyer of their choice was often impeded.[207]

Several relatives of arrested opposition supporters complained to Human Rights Watch that they sometimes had spent days searching for them. Julieta Antonyan, mother of 33-year-old Gurgen Mikaelyan, who was arrested on March 1, told Human Rights Watch that she located him at Kentron, but he was repeatedly transferred and she had to search for him each time:

On March 2 I found out that he was kept in Kentron police station. I went to bring his passport and medicines … I had no information about him for the next two days and when I went back I was told that he was transferred and I should look for him in district police stations. I found him in [Kanaker-]Zeytun district police station. No one was explaining to me why he was kept there and what were the charges against him. On March 5, I found out that he was transferred to Erebuni pretrial detention facility. On March 7, when I brought food to him, I was told that he was transferred to Nubarashen pretrial facility. After going there, I was told that he was in solitary confinement for eight days.[208]

Human Rights Watch interviewed Julieta Antonyan 12 days after her son was arrested. Considering that he was by then in a pretrial detention facility, this meant that Gurgen Mikaelyan by then would have been charged and remanded in custody. However, since she had not been able to secure a lawyer for her son, she had no idea what charges he was facing.[209] Mikaelyan was acquitted by the court in summer 2008.

Human Rights Watch also spoke to a relative of Mihran M., who was picked up on March 3 from his apartment in Yerevan. Mihran M. was home alone when he was arrested and nobody was notified about it. His family looked for him everywhere for several days, but could not find him. Mihran M.'s brother told Human Rights Watch:

I had no idea what happened to him, I continuously called him for two to three days, but his phone was off. I've been looking for him everywhere, I called all police stations asking if they had my brother, but the answer was "no" everywhere. Three days later an unidentified person called on my cell phone to tell me that he was kept in the National Security Service basement.[210]

At the time when Human Rights Watch spoke to Mihran M.'s brother he was at Nubarashen pretrial detention facility and had access to a lawyer of his choice.[211]

Arsen A. did not pass through Kentron but was taken straight to Kanaker-Zeytun police station after his arrest near Freedom Square on the morning of March 1. He was kept there overnight, without being able to contact his family or a lawyer. He told Human Rights Watch, "I got no explanation why I was there or how long they would keep me there. I was asked to write a statement and they promised to let me go. So I wrote down that I was treated well, but they did not release me. At night they took me upstairs to a room and I slept in a chair." Arsen A. also told Human Rights Watch, "I continued to ask for a lawyer, but they told me that I did not need one and if I cooperate they would release me soon"; when he persisted he was ridiculed by the police and threatened that he would be in even bigger trouble. Arsen A. was released only around 4 p.m. on March 2. His family had had no idea where he was kept and had been looking for him.[212]

Even in cases where a lawyer was engaged on behalf of a detainee, access was sometimes impeded. Several defense lawyers told Human Rights Watch that they had to secure the responsible investigator's signature in order to be able to visit their clients in pretrial detention facilities, and obtaining this signature could prove very difficult.[213] Harutyun Bagdasaryan, a criminal lawyer, explained to Human Rights Watch, "In one case I have been trying to obtain the investigator's approval for seven days, but every time I call him to meet with him, he tells me that he is very busy and could not meet with me."[214]

Another criminal lawyer, Hovik Arsenyan, shared a similar story. He had been trying to meet with his client who was kept in Nubarashen pretrial detention facility, but the investigator had been refusing to sign a document granting him access.[215] His client had been arrested on March 2, Hovik Arsenyan got involved in the case on March 4, and nine days later he still had no access to his client.

The mother of 27-year-old Rubik R. had similar problems securing a lawyer for her son. Rubik R. was detained on March 5 and transferred to Erebuni pretrial detention facility the next day. When his mother went to bring him food and clothes on March 7, she was told by someone passing a message from Rubik that he wanted a lawyer. She told Human Rights Watch:

For three days I have been trying to find out who is an investigator in my son's case. I went to the general prosecutor's office, as well as to the city prosecutor's office, but could not. I needed to know who the investigator was, as he had to sign a document for a lawyer to get involved and see my son. On March 9 I found out that my son was already sentenced to two months pretrial detention. We learned that a state-appointed lawyer was present at the hearing, but we never saw him.[216]

Family members of Poghos P. faced a similar problem: Although they managed to hire a lawyer for their son, the lawyer could not find out who the investigator in the case was, as three different investigators had been in charge of the case in the space of just four days. The lawyer finally gained access to Poghos P. on March 18, more than two weeks after he had been detained and 10 days after he was hired by the family.[217]

Vahagn Harutyunyan, chief investigator of the Special Investigation Service, told Human Rights Watch that no one had been denied access to a lawyer, although he admitted that there were some cases when a detainee's family would hire a lawyer, but a contract with a family member was not sufficient to be a legal representative of the defendant if the latter had refused initially to have one.[218] Human Rights Watch documented at least one case when a lawyer retained by the defendant's family one month after the arrest still did not have access to the client because the investigator in the case claimed the defendant refused to have one. Harutyunyan was also aware of the case, but claimed that the defendant had a state appointed lawyer and had refused to have another one.[219] Human Rights Watch is aware of at least one other case when an investigator refused a defense lawyer involvement in a case, arguing that the defendant had himself refused the lawyer. The lawyers did not have an opportunity to confirm this with the defendants, but rather had to take the investigator's word for it.[220]

Notes

[206] Human Rights Watch interviews with Seda Safaryan, March 11; and Zaruhi Postanjyan, MP, Yerevan, March 15, 2008.

[207] Human Rights Watch interviews with lawyers, family members of detainees and released detainees, Yerevan, March-April, 2008.

[208] Human Rights Watch interview with Julieta Antonyan, Yerevan, March 12, 2008.

[209]Â Ibid. It is possible that Mikaelyan was provided with a state appointed lawyer that his family was not aware of.

[210] Human Rights Watch interview with brother of Mihran M., Hrazdan, March 30, 2008.

[211] Ibid.

[212] Human Rights Watch interview with Arsen A., March 28, 2008. Police kept his cell phone and passport, which he got back 10 days later only with the help of a lawyer.

[213] Human Rights Watch interviews with with Hovik Arsenyan, lawyer, Yerevan, March 12; and Harutyun Bagdasaryan, lawyer, Yerevan, March 13, 2008.

[214] Human Rights Watch interview with Harutyun Bagdasaryan, March 13, 2008.

[215] Human Rights Watch interview with Hovik Arsenyan, March 12, 2008.

[216] Human Rights Watch interview with mother of Rubik R., Yerevan, March 12, 2008.

[217] Human Rights Watch interview with Poghos P.'s lawyer (name withheld), January 17, 2009.

[218] Human Rights Watch interview with Vahagn Harutyunyan, March 31, 2008.

[219] Ibid.

[220] Human Rights Watch interview with Harutyun Bagdasaryan, March 13, 2008.

Note
Picture: Before 1000 years, Vaspurakan’ state spanned in the eastern borders of the Oriental Roman Empire; this occurred 100 years before the rise of the Seljuk sultanate whereby the majority of the Greek speaking populations of Anatolia fervently adhered in order to get rid of the evil, dictatorial and tyrannical Constantinopolitan administration. This state can be reborn thanks to the criminal policies of the West’s Freemasonic puppets Gul and Erdogan.