PRE-ELECTION TERROR STARTED AGAINST NEWSPAPER "PAKAGITS", AGAPY HAYKAZUNI CONVINCED

Noyan Tapan
Feb 21 2007

YEREVAN, FERUARY 21, NOYAN TAPAN. Employees of the Department
on Compulsory Execution of Legal Acts on February 20 confiscated
property of the editorial office of the newspaper "Pakagits" owned
by AGAP-HRAT LLC. To recap, by the court decision of December 14,
2006, the company must pay 9.5 mln drams (about 27 thousand USD)
for occupying the office of the Democracy and Labor Party (DLP)
at 19 Khanjian Street since 2004.

The company director Agapi Haykazuni said during a press conference
on the same day that the company occupies this area following
the principle "a place for lobbying". In her words, all this is
a pre-election terror against the newspaper. "The daily tries to
inform the public about the property and criminal activity of the
prime minister. This is the reason why an attack was launched on
the newsapper," she said. According to her information, DLP chairman
Artak Melikian was promised to be included in the proportional list
of the Republican Party of Armenia – for silencing "Pakagits". Agapi
Haykazuni said that she has repeatedly received threats from some
RPA members whose names she refused to make public.

"Pakagits" will not close after the confiscation of its property. It
will proceed along the path it has chosen and issue even more critical
publications," A. Haykazuni stated.