DO NOT MAKE WRONGDOERS MORE IMPUDENT!

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[07:31 pm] 17 September, 2007

Statement of the Yerevan Press Club and the Committee for Protection
of Freedom of Speech

Hovhannes Galajyan, the editor-in-chief of "Iskakan Iravunk" newspaper,
was assaulted and beaten with metal sticks on September 15, 2007.

The journalist got concussion of the brain and injuries on the
head. This is the second time Galajyan has been attacked. The
initiators of the previous attack on September 6, 2006, are still
unexposed.

The YPC and the CPFS have stated many times that the assaults are
resulted by malfunctioning of law-enforcement bodies as they are unable
(or merely don’t want) to reveal and punish the wrongdoers.

We condemn the new terrorism and state that nondisclosure of the crimes
makes people attempting to silence freedom of speech more impudent.