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VAZGEN MANUKYAN CONDEMNS
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[07:35 pm] 01 November, 2007
The "National Democratic Union" disseminated the following
announcement.
Reflecting on 23 October incidents and the processes that followed it,
which were not aimed at revealing the perpetrators and punishing them,
the "National Democratic Union" announces:
Started from 1998 (when the nation stood up to protect its rights)
and until the present day we live in a country, where human rights
are not protected, laws are violated and the authorities try to
reproduce themselves. Ordinary citizens, political actors and,
particularly, representatives of mass media are beaten and persecuted
for implementing their professional commitments. A similar incident
took place on 23 October, when an informative rally was organized in
Yerevan. Headed by the deputy head of the Yerevan Police Alexander
Afyan women, teenagers, as well as editor-in-chiefs of some newspapers
and party leaders were beaten and detained by police. Goyar Veziryan,
a journalist, got serious corporal injures for carrying out her
professional commitments. 11 citizens were brought to the police
department in Yerevan.
The "National Democratic Union" condemns the brutality over the
participants of the rally, which violated human rights and civil
freedom and demands accurate and strict implementation of the law
in regard with this incident. The "National Democratic Union" also
reaffirms its approach, that only within the frameworks of a true
democratic state, where the authorities are elected by the nation
and are responsible for the nation; we will be able to get rid of
such occurrences, which unfortunately have a traditional character
in the country now.
The announcement was signed by the head of the "National Democratic
Union" Vazgen Manukyan.
A1+
[07:35 pm] 01 November, 2007
The "National Democratic Union" disseminated the following
announcement.
Reflecting on 23 October incidents and the processes that followed it,
which were not aimed at revealing the perpetrators and punishing them,
the "National Democratic Union" announces:
Started from 1998 (when the nation stood up to protect its rights)
and until the present day we live in a country, where human rights
are not protected, laws are violated and the authorities try to
reproduce themselves. Ordinary citizens, political actors and,
particularly, representatives of mass media are beaten and persecuted
for implementing their professional commitments. A similar incident
took place on 23 October, when an informative rally was organized in
Yerevan. Headed by the deputy head of the Yerevan Police Alexander
Afyan women, teenagers, as well as editor-in-chiefs of some newspapers
and party leaders were beaten and detained by police. Goyar Veziryan,
a journalist, got serious corporal injures for carrying out her
professional commitments. 11 citizens were brought to the police
department in Yerevan.
The "National Democratic Union" condemns the brutality over the
participants of the rally, which violated human rights and civil
freedom and demands accurate and strict implementation of the law
in regard with this incident. The "National Democratic Union" also
reaffirms its approach, that only within the frameworks of a true
democratic state, where the authorities are elected by the nation
and are responsible for the nation; we will be able to get rid of
such occurrences, which unfortunately have a traditional character
in the country now.
The announcement was signed by the head of the "National Democratic
Union" Vazgen Manukyan.