The president of the “Veles” human rights defender organization, Marina Poghosyan, submitted a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights against the Republic of Armenia. The complaint concerns the case of physical abuse against Marina Poghosyan by some officers of the Compulsory Enforcement Service of Judicial Acts, which was examined in Armenian courts, yet the CES officers have not been called to account.

In her interview with the Arajin Lratvakan (the First News Agency) Marina Poghosyan assessed the encroachment by the CES officers as sexual harassment against her. It should be reminded that on March 17, 2014, during the eviction of a family dwelling in Abovyan Street in Yerevan, CES officers executed violence against the oldest member of the family, 77-year-old Zina Gyozalyan. After she had arrived at the scene, the human rights defender Marina Poghosyan tried to prevent violence, but in the result she herself was subjected to violence and humiliation.

The CES officers first deprived the human rights defender of freedom by locking her behind the door of one of the rooms and not allowing her to leave the place. Then, a little later, the door was opened, Poghosyan was pulled out from the place and thrown on the concrete stairs. Poghosyan was caused bodily injuries.

“If the investigator, the prosecutor and the judge of the case can consider it normal of strange men’s carrying their wives by hugging them, I find it to be sexual harassment”, Marina Poghosyan told to the Arajin Lratvakan.

Applying to the European Court, the human rights defender stated that the Republic of Armenia violated Articles 3, 8 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The complaint states the following: “The applicant finds that the use of force by the CES officers, putting pressure on her and humiliating her in front of her client resulted in a violation of the rights of prohibition of torture set forth in Article 3, and of respect for private and family life set forth in Article 8 of the Convention, and the lack of effective investigation of the cases and of not bringing the perpetrators to trial resulted in a violation of Article 13 of the Convention, i.e. the right to an effective remedy”.

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