YEREVAN. – Armenian capital city Yerevan Deputy Police Chief Valeri Osipyan likewise has been deemed an injured party in the criminal case involving activist Shant Harutyunyan, his son Shahen, and thirteen other activists.   

Armenian News-NEWS.am has learned the aforementioned from the Judicial Information System.

At present, there are sixteen injured parties in connection with this case.

The abovementioned system, however, does not inform as to specifically which accused had caused injuries to Osipyan.

The first court hearing into this case is scheduled for June 12, and the Yerevan Deputy Police Chief is expected to be at court, too.

The United National Initiative leader and activist Shant Harutyunyan who heads a nationalist party, and who had announced about starting a revolution, on November 5, 2013—and with close to several dozen supporters wearing Guy Fawkes “Anonymous masks”—had started a march toward the Presidential Palace, but the police had stopped the march.

As a result, there was a scuffle and explosions, and the police detained 38 activists. Subsequently, criminal charges were laid against fourteen of them, including Harutyunyan and his 15-year-old son Shahen. As a result of the melee, sixteen people, including eight police officers, were injured.