SIT-DOWN DEMONSTRATION PARTICIPANTS DEMAND RELEASE OF VAHAGN CHAKHALIAN

Noyan Tapan
Oct 21 2006

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 21, NOYAN TAPAN. A group of young people –
supporters of the democratic alliance "United Javakhk" on October
20 started a sit-down demonstration in protest against the actions
that the Armenian authorities and law-enforcement bodies took with
respect to the alliance, NT was informed from the press service of
United Javakhk. Sitting in front of Monument to Mikael Nalbandian,
the demonstrators "condemn the fact of not disclosing the crime
committed in Yerevan against the Javakh Armenian figures and the
arrest of Vahagn Chakhalian on an absurd charge. They demand that he
be released." To recap, V. Chakhalian was arrested on October 10 on
a charge of crossing the Armenian border illegally.