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    NO POLICE INTERVENTION

    A1+
    01:40 am | June 01, 2009

    Politics

    Journalist for "168 Hours" Armine Avetyan and "Transparency
    International" representative Sona Ayvazyan were beaten up at the
    Malatia-Sebastia district's 8/05 polling station at around 3 p.m.

    "I was standing near the window when 20 shaved-heads came in. Six of
    them surrounded the voting booth, while another six started pushing
    and beating me and Sona. Commission president Petros Avetisyan,
    Vice-president Khachatur Khachatryan were standing calmly and not
    doing anything. They held us to the wall, surrounded us and started
    stuffing the ballots," Armine Avetyan told "A1+".

    They took Avetyan's recorder, camera and even the phone so she wouldn't
    call anyone.

    "Police officers were standing outside, but didn't do anything."

    According to the journalist, the shaved-heads could have been MP Samvel
    Alexanyan's men because Armine Avetyan had prohibited Alexanyan's
    relative from stuffing the ballots and the shaved-head had tried to
    bribe the journalist.

    "He kept trying to invite me to eat. He told me that he would pay me
    money to stop me from doing my job," said Armine Avetyan, adding that
    she had called Samvel Alexanyan and told him what had happened. In
    response, Samvel Alexanyan told her that she should have called him
    on the spot.

    MP Anahit Bakhshyan received an alarm and rushed to the polling
    station.

    "There was a lot of commotion for some reason and it was clear that
    they weren't voters. I called Samvel Alexanyan and told him that this
    is not a good service for the president. He got frustrated and told me
    that he would tell those people to leave," Anahit Bakhshyan told "A1+".

    "A1+" tried to find out information about the incident from proxies
    and observers at the polling station, but each of them gave his
    own explanation, saying that they had left the polling station at
    that moment.
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