YEREVAN. – A civil complaint will be filed with the court on October 8 against Ruben Hayrapetyan, Haykakan Zhamanak daily reports.  

“Ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan told this to our reporter. The lawsuit—which will be filed by Hranush Kharatyan, “Vahe Avetyan” Initiative member Garegin Chugaszyan, and activist Davit Sanasaryan—will refer to Ruben Hayrapetyan’s slanders and insults hurled against them during his interview with Nouvelles d’Arménie monthly [of France].      

Incidentally, slander and insult have a statute of limitations for one month [in Armenia]. [And] That term will expire on this coming Monday[, October 8],” Haykakan Zhamanak writes.      

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, an incident had occurred at capital city Yerevan’s Harsnaqar Restaurant Complex on June 17, where several military doctors including Edgar Mikoyan, Arkadi Aghajanyan, Garik Soghomonyan, Artak Bayadyan and Vahe Avetyan were brutally beaten by security personnel. And Vahe Avetyan died in hospital on June 29.

Subsequently, a criminal lawsuit was filed and, now, six people are standing trial.

The Restaurant’s owner is ruling Republican Party former MP, Football Federation of Armenia President, and businessman Ruben Hayrapetyan, who formally gave up his parliamentary seat in connection with this incident.