YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS. Police Chief of Armenia Vladimir Gasparyan has instructed internal investigations regarding possible misconduct and acts of violence against protesters, Head of the Press and Public Relations of the Armenian Police Ashot Aharonyan said.

“Representatives of some NGOs have spread information in the media stating that detainees have been beaten and humiliated. And all this, without noting any concrete facts, information, addresses, with uncertain remarks, some kind of footages, with such poor sound that it is impossible to hear anything. This “approximation” is surprising especially in terms that the abovementioned have previously referred name by name to their defenders. Today it isn’t like that, and this gives grounds to assume that realities are being speculated. I suggest to refrain from such kind of “amateur” and “deadlock” methods.

Internal investigations are launched at the instruction of the Police Chief on all incidents more or less known to us. If indeed you want the truth to be found out and all possible guilty ones to be punished – assist the investigation, contact the police. In case of difficulties call me or send information via social networks. This is the path of having the true picture of the reality, but otherwise, I repeat, we will be forced to assume that all these are primitive and infantile attempts aimed at targeted defamation of the police and misleading the public”, he wrote on Facebook.