Maro Guloyan’s lawyers to meet deputy prosecutor general today

The lawyers of the legal successor of 20-year-old Maro Guloyan who committed suicide will meet with Deputy Prosecutor General of Armenia M. Sargsyan to submit an application for transfer of the preliminary investigation of the criminal case to Yerevan, Aysor.am was informed by Ms. Lusine Minasian, representative of M. Guloyan’s legal successor.

She said that if their demand is rejected, they will file a new lawsuit, but they hope their demand will be met.

“In response to our previous application, the criminal case was resumed. The prosecutor made a well-founded decision, in accordance with the law. I think that the answer to the second application will be a continuation of the first one. That is, it will envisage measures aimed at achieving a legitimate goal,” Lusine Minasian noted.

Maro Guloyan died under suspicious circumstances on 12 July 2012 in Arinj village, Kotayk province. She had a young daughter and was expecting a second child. According to the official version, the woman committed suicide. Yet the lawyer of Women’s Resource Center Lusine Minasian, members of other NGOs, and Maro Guloyan’s relatives rule out the suicide version.

A criminal case was opened under Article 110 of the Criminal Code (causing a person to commit suicide), but on April 22 of this year a decision on dismissal of the case was taken for lack of corpus delicti.