EXAMINATION OF NOR ZHAMANAKNER PARTY’S CLAIM AGAINST POLICE POSTPONED
FOR A WEEK
YEREVAN, MAY 26, NOYAN TAPAN. The first instance court of Kentron and
Nork-Marash Yerevan communities presided over by judge Hrachya
Hovhannisian will start to examine Nor Zhamanakner party’s claim
against RA Police on June 2. At the May 26 sitting the court sustained
the mediation of Hovhannes Kocharian, Deputy Head of Legal Provision
Department of RA Police, representing the respondent party about
giving time for obtaining additional proofs and the court sitting was
postponed for a week: the party mediated about giving a term of 10
days to it. In his claim Aram Karapetian, Chairman of the Nor
Zhamanakner party, appeals against the following formulations in the
May 21 report of RA Police placed on its Internet site: “Nor
Zhamanakner’s chairman started an unsanctioned rally in the square
near Sevan Chamber of Culture” and “organized an unsanctioned
procession from Sevan market to the square in front of the Chamber of
Culture voicing public appeals about participating in the revolution
being prepared in Armenia, changing the power by force.” According to
party’s chairman, the April 20 Sevan rally was sanctioned and no
unsanctioned rally and appeals about overthrow of power by force were
voiced. Besides, according to the claimant party, the respondent
violated the requirement of the second clause of Article 8 of the law
“On Mass Media,” it didn’t publish a refutation, and the
above-mentioned information discredits his and Nor Zhamanakner party’s
honor and dignity. So, the party asks to oblige the respondent party
to refute the May 21 report of RA Police.