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Politics | 18.05.07 | 16:00

Deadly Pattern: Gulyan death not the first to raise suspicion about police treatment

By Vahan Ishkhanyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
While mourning the death of her brother, Levon Gulyan, Lilit Gulyan told a reporter: “If this case is not solved then we are all at risk: your brother might be the next. I can’t return my brother but I want nobody else to suffer this pain. Let my brother be the last.”

Levon Gulyan’s death May 12 raises attention to a pattern of suspicious deaths during incarceration that reaches back more than a decade.

ArmeniaNow collected this partial list.

January 21st 1993 Rudik Vardanyan, 22 was invited to Spandaryan (now Kentron) department of internal affairs (now the police) for alleged apartment robbery. The same day his body was returned to his parents with obvious traces of violence. Two police officers were sentenced for misfeasance and disorder.

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