Captain Artyom Avetisyan, an officer at the Vazgen Sarhgsyan Military Institute has been arrested and charged with “dereliction of duty” in the death of Haykaz Barseghyan, a private in the Armenian army whose body was found on January 29 hanging from a rope attached to the horizontal bar in the gym of a training unit in Yerevan he was assigned to.

On February 2, four Armenian soldiers from the same unit were indicted for the murder of Barseghyan.

The official charge levied by the military investigative department of Armenia’s Investigative Committee against the four was “murder by a group of people, or by an organized group, resulting from hooliganism” (RA Criminal Code Article 104).

An investigation into the killing of Haykaz Barseghyan is ongoing.