Interfax
Sep 15 2007 8:52PM
Armenian opposition journalist beaten – colleague
YEREVAN. Sept 15 – Unidentified individuals assaulted Ovannes
Galadzhian, editor of the Armenian opposition newspaper The True Law,
at the entrance to his office in Yerevan on Saturday and beat him up
with iron rods, The True Law editorial board chairman Aik Babukhanian
told Interfax.
The Yerkir Media television company said Galadzhian had been brought
to an emergency clinic with serious injuries.
The True Law was set up by journalists who left the newspaper The Law
as a result of a split in the Constitutional Law Union, an opposition
party.
Babukhanian told Interfax that Galadzhian had been beaten up before as
well, being attacked by two unidentified individuals a year ago. "And
though criminal proceedings were instituted, they haven’t moved
ahead," the board chairman said.
Babukhanian said Galadzhian, who had been dismissed as editor of The
Law, had filed a suit demanding his reinstatement and compensation for
incomes he had missed because of his dismissal. A court hearing of the
suit was scheduled for next week, Babukhanian said.