Gurgen Egiazaryan
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Gurgen Ambartsumovich Egiazaryan (Armenian: Գուրգեն Համբարձումի Եղիազարյան; 29 September 1948 — 28 October 2020) was an Armenian politician and civil servant.
Biography
Egiazaryan was born in
Starting from 1976, he held various offices within the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the
In 2003 he became a member of the "New Times" Party, part of the opposition.[citation needed]
On 18 December 2006 he was invited to the Prosecutor General's Office to give explanations about an interview, in which he claimed that there had been a video recording showing the use of psychotropic substances and physical violence to obtain the evidence necessary for the investigation of the 1999 Armenian parliament shooting.
In his later years he wrote three books, The Children of the Sun (Armenian: Արեգակի զավակը, 2011), The Thief (Armenian: Գողը, 2016) and The Wolf Knot Operation (Armenian: Գայլի հանգույց գործողությունը, 2016).[1]
Ten days after being admitted to Surb Astvatsamayr Medical Center in Yerevan, Egiazaryan died on 28 October 2020, aged 72, twenty nine days after his birthday, from COVID-19, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Armenia.[2]
References
- ^ ""Գայլի հանգույց" գործողությունը". ԱՐԵԳ հրատարակչություն (in Armenian). 19 June 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ "Կորոնավիրուսից մահացել է Գուրգեն Եղիազարյանը". Lragir.am (in Armenian). 28 October 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2020.