Armenian opposition bloc reports police violence against activists

Arminfo
8 Apr 04

YEREVAN

Twelve activists of the opposition Justice bloc and the National Unity
Party were recently subjected to administrative arrest, said a
statement issued by the political council of the Justice bloc and
Anrapetutyun (Republic) Party obtained today by the Arminfo news
agency.

According to the statement, over 20 people were brought to police
stations by force, illegal searches were carried out in the flats of
nine opposition activists, and 23 people were subjected to threats and
terror by the police. In connection with a criminal case brought
against the Justice bloc, members of the Armenian National Assembly
Albert Bazeyan (Republic Party leader) and Viktor Dallakyan (the
secretary of the Justice faction), Aramazd Zakaryan (a member of the
political council of the Anrapetutyun (Republic) Party) and his wife,
the leaders of the regional branches of the aforementioned parties,
Unan Mazmanyan, Zhora Sapeyan, Sayat Tumanyan and others were summoned
to the prosecutor’s office.

The political council of the Anrapetutyun Party has made repeated
efforts to clarify via the police information about the opposition’s
non-party supporters who were subjected to violence, but these efforts
were in vain. Therefore, the political council of the party cannot
name all the activists who were subjected to the law-enforcement
bodies’ violence, the statement said.