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`FREEDOM TO ZHIRAYR SEFILYAN AND VARDAN MALKHASYAN’
[06:23 pm] 02 February, 2007

more images A number of citizens participated in a
protest action in protection of Zhirayr Sefilyan and
Vardan Malkhasyan. They walked from the Chamber music
hall towards the Government building. They are
accompanied policemen the number of which was hardly
less their own. The participants of the action sang
patriotic songs and cried out `Freedom to Zhirayr and
Vardan’. Reaching the Government building they stood
with their backs to it.

Brother of Zhirayr Toros Sefilyan was also present at
the meeting. He said that he has seen his brother
twice, and all is well with him. Toros Sefilyan wanted
to meet Robert Kocharyan and Serge Sargsyan, but `they
have kept me waiting for a week’.

Founder of `Union of volunteers’ Samvel Haroutyunyan
announced that the suit is not against Vardan
Malkhasyan and Zhirayr Sefilyan: it is against the
wishes of the Armenian martyrs and our national
dignity. `We have had more than 6000 martyrs in the
Artsakh war. They wanted to have a free, independent
and powerful Armenia’.

According to him, Sefilyan’s arrest testifies to the
fact that the authorities are going to be re-elected
on May 12 Parliamentary elections. `We announce that
we are not going to allow that. We will prevent that
anti-national action’, Samvel Haroutyunyan claimed.