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ASSAULT ON ARAM KARAPETYAN

[04:48 pm] 21 April, 2006

Today at about 01:00 PM near the Police Erebouni department twelve
armed and masked unknown people stopped the car of Aram Karapetyan,
leader of the «New Times» Party. They got the drivers and bodyguards
out of the cars and took the cars to the National Security
Service. The aim of the check-up was to find out weapon.

According to the press service of the «New Times» Party, «the armed
people left Aram Karapetyan in the street and took the drivers and
bodyguards together with the cars in an unknown direction. The whole
action was recorded with several cameras. »

Let us remind you that last year this time the famous events of Sevan
took place when the head of the youth wing of the party was shot.

The Party expresses its indignation at the event qualifying it as
typical Armenian manifestation of political gangsterism. The Party
informs that `this kind of foul actions cannot break the revolutionary
spirit of the Party and its leader.’