Two officers with the Government Safety Service   in court that they were the ones shown on a tape beating two citizens early on the morning of March 2, 2009. However, Andranik Manukyan and Gegham Grigoryan argued that the tape did not show what lead to the officers’ conduct; namely that the two individuals min questions had been cursing and throwing stones at them Manukyan and Grigoryan are being charged with “overstepping their jurisdiction” in the course of duty. Their trial, at Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court, ended today with Prosecutor Ashot Nadoyan requesting a three day recess in order to prepare his closing comments.  Judge Gagik Avetisyan sustained the motion and scheduled the trial to resume on December 16.