Regarding the new Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes entering into force, an amendment was made in the internal regulation of the places for the arrestees in the RA Police system, approved by the Government decision. Due to the fact that construction and furnishing features of places for the arrestees are outside the scope of regulating the internal rules of procedures, the provisions related to the construction were not included in the RA government decision. The RA Deputy Police Chief Artur Martirosyan stated this at January 11 sitting of the RA NA Standing Committee on Defense and Security, introducing the draft law on Making Amendment to the Law on Holding the Arrestees and Detainees.
According to the Deputy Police Chief, it is necessary to define the features regarding the construction of the places for the arrestees in a separate legal act in order to comply with the international standards proposed by the UN Committee against Torture. Therefore, it became necessary to design an authorizing norm in the Law on Holding the Arrestees and the Detainees, by which the construction and furnishing features of places for the arrestees are planned to be defined by the Government decision of the Republic of Armenia.
In the absence of a separate legal act regarding the features of the construction of places for the arrestees, it becomes impossible for competent superior bodies to establish control over such construction features during the construction and fundamental renovation of the places for the arrestees, in the absence of which the rights of the detained persons are violated.
Referring to the importance of the draft, the Deputy Chair of the RA NA Standing Committee on Defense and Security Armen Khachatryan urged his colleagues to endorse the draft in the related report.
The bill was endorsed by the Committee.