24 OF PARTICIPANTS OF ANTI-ARMENIAN DEMONSTRATION INITIATED BY PANTURKISTS IN TAVRIZ ARRESTED

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 07 2006

TABRIZ, MARCH 7, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. At the February
26 meeting with the journalists, Colonel Haghighi, Commander of
the law-inforcement bodies of Tabriz, gave explanations about the
anti-Armenian demonstration in front of the building of the Armenian
National primacy building of Atrpatakan held on the same day in Tabriz.

The illegal demonstration was initiated by Panturkist groupings. As the
“Alik” Tehran daily informs, referring to the information of the Tabriz
“Mahde Azadi” daily, the law-inforcement bodies of Tabriz, defending
the minority of the Tabrizian Armenians and holding up the danger
threatening the rights of the population, arrested 24 demonstrants and
gave the cases instituted against them to the law-enforcement bodies.