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    ARMENIA OPPOSITION YOUTHS DEMAND RELEASE OF ALL COUNTRY'S POLITICAL PRISONERS

    Interfax News Agency
    April 30 2008
    Russia

    Activists of the Now youth movement, which backs former Armenian
    President Levon Ter-Petrosian, have staged a protest rally in Yerevan
    demanding to release of Armenian political prisoners.

    Several dozens of activists put on overalls, with only one letter
    engraved on each overall, but which altogether make up the phrase:
    "Freedom to Political Prisoners."

    The protesters marched in downtown Yerevan. They stopped near the
    Armenian government offices, the parliament, the presidential
    residence, the Prosecutor General's Office, the monument to
    revolutionary Alexander Myasnikian - Vladimir Lenin's comrade and
    the first chairman of the Council of People's Commissars in Soviet
    Armenia - and the embassies of France and Italy.

    The youths then marched along Severny Prospekt and attempted to enter
    Liberty Square, but police officers did not allow them to do this.

    According to earlier reports, refusing to accept the official results
    of the February 19 presidential elections, Ter-Petrosian and his
    followers organized protests in Yerevan on March 1, which later grew
    into clashes with police, in which 10 people were killed and more
    than 200 injured. Ter-Petrosian's supporters still do not recognize
    the election results.

    The National Movement Center headed by the former Armenian president is
    preparing a lawsuit at the European court of Human Rights (ECHR). They
    are going to appeal violations during and the falsified results of
    the February election. A working group, in which foreign lawyers are
    involved, was established to prepare the lawsuit.
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