14/01/2014 19:35
Police open investigation into beating of Suren Sureniants
A criminal case was opened under Article 118 (battery) of the Criminal Code in connection with the beating of political scientist Suren Sureniants by Vahan Karapetian, a deputy of Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) faction of the Armenian parliament.
S. Sureniants filed a report to the Malatia police station saying that on December 14, 2013 parliamentary deputy Vahan Karapetian got into argument with him in a room of Cherry Hotel at 25 Leningradian Street in Yerevan. Karapetian punched Sureniants in the face, as a result of which Sureniants suffered an injury to his left eye.
An investigation is being conducted.