YEREVAN. – The court hearing into the deadly incident that occurred in Armenian capital city Yerevan’s Harsnaqar Restaurant Complex resumed Wednesday, and the court finally commenced the trial phase.

The court decided to first hear the injured parties and, successively, the witnesses and the defendants, and, ultimately, to review the existing documents and to examine the evidence. This decision aggravated the wronged party and the defendants’ attorneys alike, who had motioned to examine the evidence, too, and then to hear the injured parties.    

Also, the physicians who were among the injured party were absent from the courtroom and the defendants’ attorneys motioned the court to formally summon for these physicians. But the court overruled their motion and set the next hearing for October 31.         

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, an incident had occurred at 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.   

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