Ruzan Minasyan, a journalist of www.aravot.am and Aravot newspaper, was summoned to Artyom Grigoryan, the chief investigator of the National Security Service investigation department. The investigator informed that the journalist had been summoned to the NSS in regard to the case of Samvel Hovhannisyan, the former head of the Correctional Institutions Department. As www.aravot.am has informed, Samvel Harutyunyan is alleged of preparing an attempted murder of convict Jamal Sloyan who is currently in the Artik Correctional Facility through another convict.
The journalist was warned about her rights and obligations. When Ruzan Minasyan found out that she had been summoned in regard to Samvel Hovhannisyan’s case, she invited her representative, counselor Narine Rshtuni, a member of the Bar Association of the Republic of Armenia, as a witness. She was interrogated in the presence of Narine Rshtuni, which lasted for 4 hours. The investigator had Minasyan and the counselor sign a paper that they would not make public the preliminary investigation secret in regard to this case.
Nonetheless, the journalist was interrogated in regard to her phone conversations and communications with the former head of the Correctional Institutions Department.
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As early as in 2006, Ruzan Minasyan was related to the case of Jamal Sloyan convicted to 12-year imprisonment. By the article of Aravot dated June 30, 2006 – A Murder for Selfish Ends – Ruzan Minasyan presented the stabbing and murder of Captain Ahmad Sharoyan, a 48-year-old freedom fighter, a citizen of Armenia, a police operative and a father to 3 kids, in the marketplace at 15a Kecherskaya Street in Moscow on April 20 of the same year. The investigator also asked questions regarding this publication.
