TRIAL COLLAPCED TO HEAR ACCUSED OF SHOOTING PEOPLE
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ A long-awaited hearing of the case involving the high police officials collapced on Wednesday.
The criminal chamber of the UB Sukhbaatar district's court was to bring to trial these people accused of using firearms during the July 1 riots of 2008 but had to postpone the hearing.
The accused are Major-General Ch.Amarbold, a former acting head of the General Police Department (GPD); Colonel O.Zorigt, a former head of the City's Police Department; Colonel Sh.Batsukh, a former head of the Patrol and Security Department; and Lieutenant-Colonel G.Ganbaatar, a former head of the Order Section. As known, a massive gathering on the Sukhbaatar square protesting agains parliamentary election results ended in a severe riots during which a headquaters of then Mongolian People's Revolutionary party was destroyed and put on fire, many policemen were injured, and five civilians were shot dead.
As the trial began, one of the accused G.Ganbaatar asked the court to postpone the hearing because his advocate D.Orosoo was abroad and requested another advocate. The judges decided that the advocate's trip to S.Korea could not be proved legitimate, so ruled out that the case of G.Ganbaatar must be considered separately. This made other defendants' advocates protest. They demanded that the judges must be replaced. In response, the court took into consideration a request from an advocate of one of the victims about running the trial in a partial closed regime, and postponed the trial for uncertain period but said that the accused are to be remanded in custody. Hearing this, families and advocates of the defendants and the policemen who were outside the court building began protesting. After several attempts to enter the court, the policemen stated that would go on strike if the accussed are remanded in custody.
Condition of the defendants sharply worsened, and they were taken by ambulance to a hospital.
The same day, the families and advocates of the accused met Ts.Sharavdorj, a head of the Parliamentary Office requesting him "to establish justice, run the trial openly, call to the trial as witnesses those who were in power four years ago."
B.Khuder
The criminal chamber of the UB Sukhbaatar district's court was to bring to trial these people accused of using firearms during the July 1 riots of 2008 but had to postpone the hearing.
The accused are Major-General Ch.Amarbold, a former acting head of the General Police Department (GPD); Colonel O.Zorigt, a former head of the City's Police Department; Colonel Sh.Batsukh, a former head of the Patrol and Security Department; and Lieutenant-Colonel G.Ganbaatar, a former head of the Order Section. As known, a massive gathering on the Sukhbaatar square protesting agains parliamentary election results ended in a severe riots during which a headquaters of then Mongolian People's Revolutionary party was destroyed and put on fire, many policemen were injured, and five civilians were shot dead.
As the trial began, one of the accused G.Ganbaatar asked the court to postpone the hearing because his advocate D.Orosoo was abroad and requested another advocate. The judges decided that the advocate's trip to S.Korea could not be proved legitimate, so ruled out that the case of G.Ganbaatar must be considered separately. This made other defendants' advocates protest. They demanded that the judges must be replaced. In response, the court took into consideration a request from an advocate of one of the victims about running the trial in a partial closed regime, and postponed the trial for uncertain period but said that the accused are to be remanded in custody. Hearing this, families and advocates of the defendants and the policemen who were outside the court building began protesting. After several attempts to enter the court, the policemen stated that would go on strike if the accussed are remanded in custody.
Condition of the defendants sharply worsened, and they were taken by ambulance to a hospital.
The same day, the families and advocates of the accused met Ts.Sharavdorj, a head of the Parliamentary Office requesting him "to establish justice, run the trial openly, call to the trial as witnesses those who were in power four years ago."
B.Khuder
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