ARRESTED OPPOSITION FIGURES NOT SET FREE AS YET, LEVON TER-PETROSIAN IN LOCAL POLICE OFFICE, FIRST OMBUDSMAN AGAIN TRIES TO ENTER POLICE OFFICE

Noyan Tapan
Oct 24, 2007

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 24, NOYAN TAPAN. According to the data of 01:50
a.m. of October 24, none of the nine opposition figures arrested on the
eve was set free. However, the latters freely communicated through the
phone and said that no acts of violence were being committed against
them, only explanatory notes were being made. Levon Ter-Petrosian,
the first President of the Republic of Armenia, had been in the
building of the Kentron local police office for already an hour and
a half. Larisa Alaverdian, the first Ombudsman of Armenia, was trying
to enter the police office again, however, she had not managed as yet.

It should be mentioned that the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "4th
Power" Shogher Matevosian, the editor-in-chief of the daily "Armenian
Time" Nikol Pashinian, the chairman of the Conservative Party Mikael
Hayrapetian, the representative of the "Armenian National Movement"
party David Matevosian, the chairman of the "Democratic Homeland" party
Petros Makeyan and several other people are among the arrested people.

According to the information provided to a Noyan Tapan correspondemt
by the reporter of "Armenian Time" Lusine Barseghian, the reason
for the arrest of the above-mentioned people was the procession that
they and several dozen supporters organized, during which they, by
using a loud-speaker, were calling to the residents of Yerevan for
participating in the opposition rally scheduled for October 26 in
the Freedom Square. In addition to this, the procession participants
distributed leaflets of the same contents.