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    "YERKIR" UNION CALLS ON GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES TO RELEASE IMMEDIATELY RELATIVES OF VAHAGN CHAKHALIAN AND GURGEN SHIRINIAN

    Noyan Tapan
    http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=116217
    Au gust 1, 2008

    YEREVAN, AUGUST 1, NOYAN TAPAN. "Yerkir" Union of Repatriation NGOs
    called on the Georgian authorities to ensure a fair and impartial
    inquiry into the recent events in Akhalkalak and to release immediately
    the relatives of the leader of the democratic alliance "United Javakhk"
    Vahagn Chakhalian and the alliance member Gurgen Shirinian. Robert
    Tatoyan, program coordinator of "Yerkir" Union stated this at the
    July 31 press conference. According to him, the events in Akhalkalak
    are the result of the unwillingness of Georgian authorities to give a
    real solution to the problems of the ethnic minorities. "Instead the
    Georgian authorities prefer to use force to repress any manifestation
    of legal protest," he said.

    R. Tatoyan reminded that after the July 17 explosion near the house
    of the Akhalkalak police head Samvel Petrosian, the police started
    an unprecedented wave of persecutions against activists of "United
    Javakhk": more than ten members of the alliance were taken to police
    with the use of force and violence. Father and brother of G. Shirinian
    were arrested on July 17, while V. Chakhalian, his father and under-age
    broher were arrested on July 21.

    Member of the Union of Armenian Lawyers Stepan Voskanian said that a
    fact-finding group of "Yerkir" Union went to Akhalkalak and found out
    that all the arrests were made with gross violation of human rights
    and were accompanied by violence.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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