THE PROPERTY "PAKAGITS" IS CONFISCATED

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[06:48 pm] 09 November, 2006

Today, at 1-2 o’clock, there was a bustle in the club of "Pakagits"
daily. The Compulsory Executive Services confiscated the property of
the editorial office, thus depriving the staff of the possibility of
publishing the daily.

The representatives of the editorial office claim, "It is already two
days the copies of "Pakagits" daily have been taken from all the news
stands. Today, while participating in the NA session, I got a call
that the Compulsory Executive Services are taking the property of the
office out of the building. The workers of the office forbade them
to take it out in the absence of the editor but they didn’t listen
to them," says Agapy Haykazuni, editor of the newspaper.

We couldn’t get any information from the Compulsory Executive Services
on the decision according to which they confiscated the property. The
director of the newspaper didn’t sign the documents of confiscation
either.

"According to the documents, submitted by the Compulsory Executive
Services, a Daniel Tounyan demands 8 million AMD from us. I am unaware
of it as I have got no court summons.

I assume the Republican Party is responsible for this action. Our
newspaper displayed courage to open the brackets and here is the
result," complains Mrs. Haykazuni.

Political commentator Lili Martirosyan added, "Asked how they would
comment on their biased attitude towards "Pakagits" daily, the Defense
Minister and Andranik Margaryan said they are not interested in
"Pakagits." We have seen how interested they are. This gives us a
perfect ground to conclude that on the eve of elections the current
authorities don’t need free and independent media."