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    OMBUDSMAN OFFICE STAFF IN RALLY

    Lragir
    Feb 1 2008
    Armenia

    Ombudsman Armen Harutiunyan presented the renewed activities of the
    office of human rights defender on February 1. The officers are going
    to participate in mass public events to get information directly.

    Besides, the office has set up a hot line to enable voters to report
    human rights violations during the election. The voters can call
    537651, 539271, 538831, 537634, 538577, 091 008817, 091 280206 or
    email [email protected].

    The human rights defender begs the citizens to report only definite
    cases rather than abstract information. On the day of voting the staff
    of the office of ombudsman will be on duty from 7 am of February 19
    to 9 am February 20. Armen Harutiunyan underlines efforts against
    election fraud and especially bribes because the ombudsman thinks
    bribes will abort the process of democratization of Armenia.

    Armen Harutiunyan urges citizens to reject bribes because otherwise
    the political force which will be elected in this way will have no
    moral obligations before voters.

    The ombudsman considers efforts against shortening of the rights of
    citizens as highly important because as a post-Soviet country Armenia
    has a lot to do. Besides, Armen Harutiunyan calls for tolerance since
    without it a bright future would be impossible. He condemns every
    effort of hampering the activities of the election offices of the
    candidates. The ombudsman also touched upon reports of breaches in
    the pre-election period. The breaches are still under consideration,
    and since they are caused by various interpretations of the law, for
    the time being he prefers not to comment on them to avoid political
    manipulations. The ombudsman promised to hold a news conference in a
    week and dwell on this. On February 1 the ombudsman did not answer
    any questions, saying that his purpose was to announce about the
    renewed activities of the office of ombudsman.
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