The mothers are protesting in front of the General Prosecutor’s Office against the illegal adoption of children. They demand the arrest of Razmik Abrahamyan, director of the Republican Maternity Hospital.

One of the protesting mothers, Naira Ayvazyan, said she had delivered a baby boy at the Republican Hospital on 2 April, 2017.

“They told me that my baby was dead, pediatrician Gayane Khachatryan said. But my maternal instinct tells me that my baby is not dead. My baby’s body was not given to me. I was given a shoebox, and told that there was a child’s body; cut, blackened, rotten. I don’t know why it was cut. I had voiced this in 2017, applied to the police, the case was dismissed, and the investigator told my husband that they were not allowed from above,” she said.

She said she also told Gor Abrahamyan the Adviser to the Prosecutor General to ask who was “those in the upper level were” that do not allow their cases to be examined.

Naira Ayvazyan also noted that the parameters of the forensic examination are changed: the diameters of the baby’s head, weight, and shoulder width did not correspond to the moment of birth and death.

According to her, when she went to search for the body of the child, they said: “Arshak Jherjeryan has come to forensic unite, told us that we are in a difficult financial situation, we cannot come to take our child’s body to a funeral, they called us and told us to take the body to a cemetery for burial. Please tell me why Arshak Jherjeryan has the right to enter from one structure to another structure and make such a statement. He is the deputy director of the hospital, dealing with forensics matters,” Naira Ayvazyan said.

She said she thinks the baby was sold because she had seen saw her baby being born.

As previously reported, Razmik Abrahamyan, Director of the Republican Institute of Reproductive Health, Perinatology, Obstetrics and Gynecology,  Deputy Director Arshak Jherjeryan, Director of the Yerevan Children’s Home SNCO Liana Karapetyan and 2 other persons were arrested.

The investigator filed a motion with the court to select detention as measure of restraint against him, which the court denied. The RA General Prosecutor’s Office has already appealed the decisions of the Court of General Jurisdiction to the Court of Appeal of the Republic of Armenia regarding the application of measures restraint against three of the five persons involved in the mentioned criminal case.

According to the prosecutor’s office, the investigator had presented substantial arguments and suspisions in the motion regarding to selection of arrest as measure of restraint against Razmik Abrahamyan in the connection of the alleged actions that he is accused of; thus according to the prosecutions assessment the court’s ruling is not substantiated.

An earlier appeal has been filed in the case under Article 34-168 (2 – 2) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia against the decision to use the bail as an alternative measure to the citizen D. Grigoryan another accused in the case. It was accepted to proceedings.

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